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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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All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235...more

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So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry

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Let me sing the beauty of my Maggie. Legs:--the knees attached to the thighs, knees shiny, thighs like milk. Arms:--the levers of my content, the serp...more

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But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you'r...more

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We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. We made vague plans to meet in Frisco.

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because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars....more

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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world...more

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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of ...more

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...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life

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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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We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).