I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless reha…

Jack Kerouac
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I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2016). Old Angel Midnight, p.6, City Lights Publishers
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I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

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