His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and B…

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His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road, Viking Press
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1986). The Dharma Bums, p.123, Penguin
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1995). Desolation Angels, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
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And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2011). On the Road, p.79, Pen … ▶
No time for poetry but exactly what is. ✨ Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). Selected letters, 1940-1956, Penguin Paperbacks

His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road, Viking Press

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