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Love Quotes by Jack Kerouac

59 Love quotes by Jack Kerouac

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Love can burn like a blaze of light that never fades. It often brings loss, openness, and a willingness to accept the strange. The speaker also ties love to madness, adventure, and a restless desire to keep moving forward and to explore new horizons.

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Eager for bread and love.

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“Be in love with yr life”

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“Love is all.”

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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

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

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Pain or love or danger makes you real again…

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Will you love me in December as you do in May?

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“Love is bitter, death is sweet.”

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Something good will come of all things yet

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No time for poetry but exactly what is.

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Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

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“Some people have vibrations that come straight from the vibrating heart of the sun, unjaded...”

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We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

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“Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!”

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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be…

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...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

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

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“O love, fled me - or do telepathies cross sympathetically in the night?”

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And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

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Accept loss forever. Be submissive to everything, open, listening. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.…

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“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of…

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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or…

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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…

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“She loved that man madly, but in a delirious way of some kind; there was never any mooching and mincing around, just…

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“So I went up and there she was, the girl with the pure and innocent dear eyes that I had always searched…

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Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of…

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“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is…

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“His relationship with his wife was one of the strangest: they talked till late at night; Bull liked to hold the floor,…

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I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed…

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Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor…

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“I wanted to go and get Ruth again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this…

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“I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island,…

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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky…

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“O wind, songs have ye in her name? Plucked her did ye from midnight blasted millyard winds and made her renown ring…

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The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon…

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We agreed to love each other madly.

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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

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Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.

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Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.

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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

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