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Fragment of a Letter on Writing from Cassady to Kerouac - 1947

I have always held that when one writes, one should forget all rules, literary styles, and other such pretensions as large words, lordly clauses

……….Rather I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerely putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost, what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires………..

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