If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes — his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes — his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life." in the context of "Ben Gibbard, in "The Meaning Of Life" in Paste magazine (10 April 2008)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.