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Jack Kerouac — Portrait after a picture by Tom Palumbo from New York, NY, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

The quotations of

Jack Kerouac

American writer

1922–1969

10 quotes, most often on Life & Death.

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)
- Life & Death
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Freedom
- Life & Death
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
Desolation Angels (1965)
- Life & Death
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…
Big Sur (1962)
- Happiness
- Life & Death
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
On the Road (1957), Part Two, Ch. 8
- Change
- Life & Death

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