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"I saw her, standing in the crowd, forlorn, dissatisfied, dark, unpleasantly strange."
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Maggie Cassidy is a novel by the American writer Jack Kerouac, first published in 1959. It is a largely autobiographical work about Kerouac's early life in Lowell, Massachusetts, from 1938 to 1939, and chronicles his real-life relationship with his teenage sweetheart Mary Carney. It is unique for Kerouac for its high school setting and teenage characters. He wrote the novel in 1953 but it was not
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"All in life, prime, young joy days, riches of sixteen, I sneaked off to the lazy unresponsive girl three miles across town by the tragic-flowing dark sad Concord."
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"Fluting spring was racing through the corridors and ritual alleys of my sacred brain in holy life and making me wake and resurge to the business of being and becoming a man."
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"Im sure gonna get you tonight — aint gonna be like it used to be with you — Im gonna find out about you at last."
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"Its only later you learn to lean your head in the lap of God, and rest in love."
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"Heirs leap screeching from doctors laps while the old and the poor die on, and whos to bend over their bed and comfort."
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