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"Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there." "Where we going, man?" "I dont know but we gotta go."
On the RoadWhy think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all ki — On the Road
"Why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad youre alive to see?"
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On the Road is a 1957 novel by American author Jack Kerouac, inspired by his travels across the United States. It is widely regarded as a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation, following a group of friends living for the moment against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and rebellion.
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"Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done — whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was."
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"And as I sat there listening to that sound of the night which bop has come to represent for all of us, I thought of my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing-about."
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"He was a real red-nose young drunk of thirty and would have bored me ordinarily, except that my senses were sharp for any kind of human friendship."
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"They’ve got a lot more up their sleeves besides a dirty arm. Remember that. You can’t teach the old maestro a new tune."
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"And oh, that pan-fried chow mein flavored air that blew into my room from Chinatown, vying with the spaghetti sauces of North Beach, the soft-shell crab of Fishermans Wharf - nay, the ribs of Fillmore turning on spits! Throw in the Market Street chili beans, redhot, and french-fried potatoes of the Embarcadero wino night, and steamed clams from Sausalito across the bay, and thats my dream of San Francisco."
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