Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for…

Jack Kerouac
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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 some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Big Sur (Annotated), p.39, BookBaby
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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 (1995). Desolation Angels, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up … ▶
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ✨ The New York Journal-American, December 8, 1960.
Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1986). The Dharma Bums, p.99, Penguin
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). Road Novels 1957-1960

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. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Big Sur (Annotated), p.39, BookBaby

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