“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”
Source: Living, Loving, and Learning (1982), p. 53
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
Source: My Name is Red
Remarks to captors minutes before death, quoted in msnbc.com (2011 October 21) "Even stashed in a meat locker, Gadhafi divides Libya" http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44986347/ns/today-today_news/t/battle-over-body-delays-gadhafis-burial/
“You just do these things that you fall in love with, and you never know what's going to happen.”
The Circle, p. 21
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: I like the saying "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same — the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds — every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.
So you don’t know how it's going to hit people. But if you thought about how it's going to hit people, or if it's going to hurt someone, or if it's going to do this or do that, then you would have to stop making films. You just do these things that you fall in love with, and you never know what's going to happen.
“No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.”
Source: Fever
“What makes the mind fall in love dominates your existence.”
Original: (it) Ciò che innamora la mente domina la tua esistenza.
Source: prevale.net
