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The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
A Favorite of 11, Read by 91, Owned by 63, Reviewed by 3, Quotes 11
One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of...(more)
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Jack Kerouac : b. Jean-Louis Lebris De Kerouac  US author, influenced the “beat” generation
Sun Apr 15 21:34:24 UTC 2007
Source: The Dharma Bums
Contributed by: Jessica.
Jack Kerouac said

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

Jack Kerouac : b. Jean-Louis Lebris De Kerouac  US author, influenced the “beat” generation
Thu Jul 27 19:01:43 UTC 2006
Source: The Dharma Bums, Page: 58
Contributed by: J.K. Bowman.
Jack Kerouac said

A real haiku's gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing, like the greatest haiku of them all probably is the one that goes 'The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.' By Shiki. You see the wet footprints like a vision in your mind and yet in those few words you also see all the rain that's been falling that day and almost smell the wet pine needles.