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Jack Kerouac1922–1969

Jack Kerouac on life and death

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)

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