"Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink."
— Jack Kerouac

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Not a Kerouac quote, but part of the text from a publicity campaign for the Beat Museum, San Francisco, composed by the advertising agency Gyro: https://paulacw.com/The-Beat-Museum