Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink."
Living On quotes
Living On
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love..."
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
"Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital."
Alan Cohen
Author
"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside."
Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"Activism is my rent for living on the planet."
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"Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others."
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"I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account."
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