This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
JACK KEROUAC, On the Road
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that the submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk -- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
JACK KEROUAC, On the Road
JACK KEROUAC, On the Road
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
JACK KEROUAC, New York Journal-American, Dec. 8, 1960
All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC, letter, June 24, 1949
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