Quotes by John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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 re — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who se — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has t — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it. — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, t — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere. — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won’t happen. As the day approached, my — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. “Lord! I wish I could go.” “Don’t you l — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot me — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixe — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless. — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America