Jack Kerouac Quote

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.


Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (ed. Penguin, 2000) - ISBN: 9781101550625


I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact, not the...

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact, not the...

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact, not the...

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact, not the...