I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream β¨ Jack Kerouac (1972). Visions of Cody, London : AndrΓ© Deutsch
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- Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. β¨ Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Lette β¦ βΆ
- You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really nee β¦ βΆ
- I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim. β¨ Jack Kerouac (1995). The Portable Jack Kerouac, Viking Adult
- and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did. β¨ Jack K β¦ βΆ
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