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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and… — Jack Kerouac

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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...

Jack Kerouac
Big Sur · 1962
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1962
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Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962, ch. 9.

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