Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. ✨ Jack Kerouac…

Jack Kerouac
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.217, Penguin
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.217, Penguin

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