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Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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...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...more

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It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level...more

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He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutat...more

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The eyes of hope looking over the flare of the hood into the maw with its white line feeding in straight as an arrow, the lighting of fresh cigarettes...more

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So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw ...more

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I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.

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Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and looked up and saw jackpines in the moon, and saw ghos...more

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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

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…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.