“All of life is a foreign country.”
Letter to John Clellon Holmes (24 June 1949), published in The Beat Vision: A Primary Sourcebook (1987) edited by Arthur Knight and Kit Knight, page 93.
Jack Kerouac: Quotes about life
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Jack Kerouac book Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler (1960)
Context: No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
“That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.”
Jack Kerouac book Book of Sketches
Source: Book of Sketches
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”
Not a Kerouac quote, but part of the text from a publicity campaign for the Beat Museum, San Francisco, composed by the advertising agency Gyro: http://paulacw.com/The-Beat-Museum
Misattributed
“Believe in the holy contour of life”
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)