I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not th…

Jack Kerouac
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I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact, not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2000). Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings, p.92, Penguin
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