No bitter complaints about society whatever from this grand and ideal man who really loves me moreover as if I deserve it, but I'm bursting to explain everything to him, not even Big Sur but the past several years, but there's no chance with everybody yakking--And in fact I can see in Cody's eyes that he can see in my own eyes the regret we both feel that recently we haven't had chances to talk whatever, like we used to do driving across America and back in the old road days, too many people now want to talk to us and tell us their stories, we've been hemmed in and surrounded and outnumbered--The circle's closed in on the old heroes of the night--


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Pretty girls make graves
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Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glor...
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colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds it...
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our...
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, th...
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It all ends in tears anyway.
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At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver...
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At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and loo...
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clou...
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til...
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...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact ...
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Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your...
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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze...
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Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ...
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His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because...
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th...
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I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...
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What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
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We agreed to love each other madly.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
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So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
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But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
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And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
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...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
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...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
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...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
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I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
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I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
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He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
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And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
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Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
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