"...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired wi...

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.
~ Jack Kerouac ~












You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a dam...
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"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.
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"What is the universe but a lot of wavesAnd a craving desire is a wave…
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