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Jack Kerouac Quotes: My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
         

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.


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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
         



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