“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“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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