If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that’s all you read, like you don’t know anything else about literature. I recognize al… - Ben Gibbard

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If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that’s all you read, like you don’t know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes — his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.