“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”

—  Jack Kerouac , book On the Road

Part Two, Ch. 4
On the Road (1957)

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