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“So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“General Ivolgin, like all drunkards, was very emotional, and, like all drunkards who have sunk very low, he was much upset by memories of the happy past.”
― Fedor Dostoyevsky

“The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.”
― Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

“With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.”
― Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild