Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
(On the Road )
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Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.
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