Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
(On the Road )
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Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.Jack Kerouac
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We're really all of us bottomly broke. I haven't had time to work in weeks.
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It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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