Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.
(On the Road )
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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
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