I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). Road Novels 1957-1960
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- What do you want out of life? I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.156, Penguin
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- It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1976). On the Road, p.104, Penguin
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