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“There ain’t no such thing as lumberjack, that must be a Back East expression. Up here we call ‘em loggers.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“We pushed the bike down past the various college hangouts and cafeterias and looked into Robbie's to see if we knew anybody. Alvah was in there, working his part-time job
as busboy. Japhy and I were kind of outlandish-looking on the campus in our old clothes in fact Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene-colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”
― The Dharma Bums
as busboy. Japhy and I were kind of outlandish-looking on the campus in our old clothes in fact Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene-colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”
― The Dharma Bums

“Cuanto más te acercas a la auténtica materia, a la piedra y al aire y al fuego y a la madera, muchacho, el mundo resulta más espiritual. Toda esa gente que se considera materialista a ultranza no sabe nada de eso. Se consideran gente práctica y tienen la cabeza llena de ideas y nociones confusas. -Levantó la mano-. Escucha esa ardilla.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“Aquà me tienes matándome con este trasto yendo y viniendo de Ohio a Los Angeles y gano más de lo que tú has tenido en toda tu vida de vagabundo, pero eres el único que disfruta la vida. Y no sólo eso, además lo haces sin trabajar ni necesitar un montón de dinero. Vamos a ver, ¿quién es más listo, tú o yo?”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“¿no te das cuenta de que es un privilegio regalar cosas a los demás? -Y lo hacÃa de un modo muy agradable. No habÃa nada de navideño ni de ostentoso, sino algo casi triste, y en ocasiones sus regalos eran cosas viejas que tenÃan el encanto de lo útil y lo melancólico.”
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“No hay sensación mejor en el mundo que lavarse la cara en el agua frÃa una mañana en la montaña.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“Las sendas son asÃ: uno se siente flotar en el paraÃso shakespeariano de Arden y cree que va a ver ninfas y pastores tocando el camarillo, cuando de repente se encuentra bajo un sol abrasador en un infierno de polvo y espinos y ortigas..., exactamente igual que la vida.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
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