We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by li…

Jack Kerouac
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We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Big Sur (Annotated), p.56, BookBaby
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We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Big Sur (Annotated), p.56, BookBaby

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