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On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years,

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Jack Kerouac (7)

“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull midd…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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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.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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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.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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