“I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.”

—  Bob Dylan

On the influence of Jack Kerouac on him, as quoted Grasping for the Wind : The Search for Meaning in the 20th Century (2001) by John W. Whitehead

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