"The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together."
— Jack Kerouac

January 1, 1970

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Variant: All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. — As misquoted in Night and Day (1989) by Jack Maguire, p. 221; Maguire does not cite his source, so this widely quoted variant appears to be an erroneous paraphrase of this published statement. It is not a direct quote from some other statement by Kerouac.