"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain"
"Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America."
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Source: Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.92, Penguin
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