generations. Yet how many Americans with these beliefs have given up the cars around which our economy is organized, or even taken the simpler step of eating less meat? Rather than be individual pioneers in radical sacrifice, most Americans
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“Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream. ”
― On the Road
― On the Road

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― On the Road
― On the Road

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
― On the Road
― On the Road

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― On the Road
― On the Road

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
― On the Road
― On the Road

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