But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. β¨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road, Viking Press
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- The beauty of things must be that they end. β¨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Tristessa (Annotated), p.9, BookBaby
- 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. β¨ Jack Kerouac (1995). Desolation Angels, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
- What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal. β¨ Jack Kerouac (1986). The Dharma Bums, p.134, Penguin
- I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when all is said and done. β¨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: β¦ βΆ
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