“Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears…”

—  Jack Kerouac , book On the Road

Source: On the Road

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American writer 1922–1969

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