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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-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern

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Jack Kerouac
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Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1922 to 1969; Wikidata Q160534, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160534 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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