I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim... - Jack Kerouac

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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

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It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

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