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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“[...]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
“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
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“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
― 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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