This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they'r…

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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.165, Penguin
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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (P … ▶
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mys … ▶
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 i … ▶
Is Virgin you trying to fathom me ✨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Big Sur (Annotated), p.33, BookBaby
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Ed … ▶

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.165, Penguin

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