“And In The Flush Of The First Few Days Of Joy I Confidently Tell Myself (not Expecting What I'll Do In Three Weeks Only) 'no More Dissipation, It's Time For Me To Quietly Watch The World And Even Enjoy It, First In Woods Like These, Then Just Calmly Walk And Talk Among People Of The World, No Booze, No Drugs, No Binges, No Bouts With Beatniks And Drunks And Junkies And Everybody, No More I Ask Myself The Question O Why Is God Torturing Me, That's It, Be A Loner, Travel, Talk To Waiters, Walk Around, No More Self-imposed Agony ... It's Time To Think And Watch And Keep Concentrated On The Fact That After All This Whole Surface Of The World As We Know It Now Will Be Covered With The Silt Of A Billion Years In Time ... Yay, For This, More Aloneness”
— Jack Kerouac —
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