# The Subterraneans

- Author: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac.md)
- Quotes: 1
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/the-subterraneans

## Quotes

> Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling at this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac, naturally, facetious won't do−just to start at the beginning and let the truth seep out, that's what I'll do-.

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