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Details are the Life of Prose.


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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.



Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.



Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.



Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.



I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.



He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.



Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.



It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.



Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.



You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.





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Pain is not to be buried away, in my mother’s book: you stomp and rave until it hurts a little less." -Buzzfeed Article



He came back full of life and hope and determination.

He came back full of life and hope and determination.



I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.



My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.



Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.



Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.



There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.



You don't fall in love. You commit to it.

You don't fall in love. You commit to it.



Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love.

Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love.




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This page presents the quote "Details are the Life of Prose.". Author of this quote is Jack Kerouac. This quote is about writing, prose, details, life,.