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Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much....more

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Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

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Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, worried eyes, with restless eyes. Worried because fo...more

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This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economi...more

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Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.

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They got to live before they can afford to die.

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Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.

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And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. “Lord! I wish I could go.” “Don’t you like it here?” “Sure. It’s all ...more

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You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

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What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

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When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a si...more

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In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won’t happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable hous...more

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Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

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I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, awa...more

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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.