All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235...
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So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry
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Let me sing the beauty of my Maggie. Legs:--the knees attached to the thighs, knees shiny, thighs like milk. Arms:--the levers of my content, the serp...
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We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. We made vague plans to meet in Frisco.
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because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars....
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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...
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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of ...
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...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
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I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.
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He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change ...
