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November 02, 2021

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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

Jack Kerouac

This quote from Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel “The Dharma Bums” summarizes the energy of the Beat Generation — a group of artists, authors, and poets who saw with wide eyes the boundless opportunities that were opening up during the cultural revolution of the 1950s and ‘60s. To Kerouac, a blank page represented the exciting infinitude of the new age, and a life lived outside the boundaries of conventional society.

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Who said, "Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness"?

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