“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 , book Big Sur

Big Sur (1962)

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American writer 1922–1969

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