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Jack Kerouac Quotes: The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
         

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.


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