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Quotes About Exploration

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-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. We
~ Jack Kerouac
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-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
~ Jack Kerouac
C'è sempre qualcosa di più, un po' più in là... non finisce mai.
~ Jack Kerouac
Nulla dietro di me, tutto avanti, è sempre così sulla strada...
~ Jack Kerouac
We live to long, so long I will, and jounce down that mountain highest perfect knowing or no highest perfect knowing full of glorious ignorant looking to sparkle elsewhere-
~ Jack Kerouac
Hopalong Cassidy conducting his great white horse across the traffic;
~ Jack Kerouac
Con la aparición de Dean Moriarty comenzó la parte de mi vida que podría llamarse mi vida en la carretera
~ Jack Kerouac
Once upon a time there'd been a blue-eyed sea captain dining in here.
~ Jack Kerouac
we pass the fields of Perry and Madrone and where they make wine, and it's all there, all sweet the furrows of brown, with blossoms and one time we took a siding to wait for 98 and I ran out there like the hound of the Baskervilles and got me a few old prunes not longer fitten to eat - the propietor seeing me, trainman running guiltily back to engine with a stolen prune, always I was running, always was running, running to throw switches, running in my sleep and running now - happy.
~ Jack Kerouac
But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
~ Jack Kerouac
The straight line will take you only to death.
~ Jack Kerouac
I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer.
~ Jack Kerouac
You know," I said, "I think it doesn't make any difference to him anyway. He's just satisfied to wander around and forget things.
~ Jack Kerouac
With the coming of Dean Moriarity began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.
~ Jack Kerouac
İnsanlardan uzakla??rken arkana bak?p da onlar? yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ gözden kaybolan birer leke olarak gördüÄŸünde kap?ld???n o duygu nedir? Fazlas?yla büyük olan dünyan?n bizi içine yuvarlamas?d?r, vedad?r bu. Ne ki, gökyüzünün alt?nda bizi bir bekleyen bir sonraki ç?lg?n serüvene doÄŸru uzan?r?z yine.
~ Jack Kerouac
The whole purpose of mountain-climbing to me isn't just to show off you can get to the top, it's getting out to this wild country.
~ Jack Kerouac
Port Allen – onde o rio é todo chuva e rosas sob uma escuridão nebulosa e insignificante, onde entramos numa estrada sinuosa sob a luminosidade amarelada da neblina, e, de repente, numa volta, vislumbramos o viscoso vulto volátil escoando suas águas sob a ponte e cruzamos outra vez a eternidade.
~ Jack Kerouac
The endless poem.
~ Jack Kerouac
Then Indiana fields again, and St. Louis as ever in its great valley clouds of afternoon. The muddy cobbles and the Montana logs, the broken steamboats, the ancient signs, the grass and the ropes by the river. The endless poem.
~ Jack Kerouac
I had been spending a quiet Christmas in the country, as I realized when we got back into the house and I saw the Christmas tree, the presents, and smelled the roasting turkey and listened to the talk of the relatives, but now the bug was on me again, and the bug's name was Dean Moriarty and I was off on another spurt around the road.
~ Jack Kerouac
Ce n'è ancora, di strada
~ Jack Kerouac
He began to learn Yes! to everything, just like Dean at this time, and hasn't stopped since.
~ Jack Kerouac
For a moment it was no different from being in Newark, except for the great hugeness outside that I loved so much.
~ Jack Kerouac
and only because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere
~ Jack Kerouac