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

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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

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I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the on...more

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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.

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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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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen...more