I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
(On the Road )
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I yelled for joy. We passed the bottle. The great blazing stars came out, the far receding hills got dim. I felt like an arrow that could shoot out all the way.
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