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Travels with Charley quotes

John Steinbeck

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“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“Nearly every American hungers to move.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“in our time a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit...” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“I have seen Negro children who really cannot learn, particularly those who in their gelatin plate of babyness have been told they were inferior.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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