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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 vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.”
― Rubyfruit Jungle
― Rubyfruit Jungle
“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
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