"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
— Jack Kerouac

January 1, 1970

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Not a Kerouac quote, but by Allen Ginsberg in his journal of 30 July 1947. Published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199.