I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me …

Jack Kerouac
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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.323, Penguin
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