“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at bthe paino playing a powerful movement from some Symphony in D major by Beethoven, by Brahms, by Sibelius, by Tschaikowsky, by anybody, by Thomas Wolfe, by Ernest Hemmingway, by William Saroyan, by Jack Kerouac, by George Apostolos, by Sebastian the Prince, by Love, by Earth, by Fire, by Water, by All, Everything, Love you and I, me myself, egotist, Earth, Fire, a mad and wild concoction of all Life, and of the all-embracing All.”
― The Sea Is My Brother
― The Sea Is My Brother
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