“The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.”
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Jack Kerouac 266
American writer 1922–1969Related quotes
“Work and pray,
Live on hay.
You’ll get pie
In the sky
When you die—
It’s a lie!”
“Bread Overhead” (p. 121); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1958; alluding to the song The Preacher and the Slave.
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875), p. 76
“You live you die and death not ends it.”
An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: We live, we die
and death not ends it
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it