“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”
Source: The Song of Achilles
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“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth

“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”

"Justin Timberlake praises Jackson's musical genius" http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20287803,00.html, People (June 26, 2009).

“Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.”
Source: Mystic's Musings

An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981

“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
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