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Life Quotes by Jack Kerouac

126 Life quotes by Jack Kerouac

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Jack Kerouac describes an idealist who has outgrown his own idealism, finding purpose in simply doing what he loves. He marvels at how flowers grow around rocks without being asked, and he vows never to give up, even if it means yelling and laughing through hardship.

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Life is life, and kind is kind

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“Love is bitter, death is sweet.”

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“the road is life”

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All of life is a foreign country.

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Details are the Life of Prose.

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“Be in love with yr life”

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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

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“The straight line will take you only to death.”

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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

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“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”

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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

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“Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.”

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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?”

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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me,…

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"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

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“All life is but a skull-bone and A rack of ribs through which we keep passing food & fuel- just so's we…

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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

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The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as…

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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

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“a choleric, red-faced, pudgy hater of everything, who could turn on the warmest and most charming smile in the world when real…

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and…

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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones…

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An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep…

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“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself…

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We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we…

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“When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his…

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I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive…

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Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their…

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“I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now, and the attacks…

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“For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world…

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“Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking…

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“O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't…

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I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death…

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“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,…

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“So even that marvelous, long remembrances of life all the time in the world to just sit there or lie there or…

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Be in love with your life, every minute of it!

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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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“Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.”

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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to…

“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”

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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

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