Jack Kerouac Quotes
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.
Jack Kerouac
Quotes to Explore
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
Walter Kirn
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
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I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!
Marvin J. Ashton
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My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
Buzz Aldrin
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If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!
Zig Ziglar
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I just got back from Hawaii on Saturday, and it's so depressing how quickly all the stresses and the stressful energy of L.A. comes bombarding back. Everyone's in a rush, you're annoying everyone, get out of their way, everyone's most important than you are, has got somewhere more important to be - very draining town. But I still love it in many ways. I wouldn't leave California. I think it's a fantastic state, if you can't be in Hawaii all the time.
Natalie Maines
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That night I dreamed of turduckens.
S. A. Bodeen
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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.
Jack Kerouac