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On The Road (1957)
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I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
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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 vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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.
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The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a girl and we necked all the way to Indianapolis. She was nearsighted. When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter. She bought my meals; my sandwiches were all gone. In exchange I told her long stories.
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The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.
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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.
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They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.
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I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
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Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
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We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess—across the night...
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I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
March 12, 1922
Died:
October 21, 1969
(aged 47)
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