“I do know this—the big and mysterious America is bigger than I thought. And more mysterious.”

Travels with Charley in Search of America
John Steinbeck
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“Then I crossed the great arch hung from filaments and I was in the city I knew so well.

It remained the City I remembered, so confident of its greatness that it can afford to be kind. It had been kind to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency...”

Travels with Charley in Search of America
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“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

Travels with Charley in Search of America
John Steinbeck
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“I hadn’t been thinking very well of myself for some years, but if my sins had this dimension there was some pride left. I wasn’t a naughty child but a first rate sinner, and I was going to catch it.”

Travels with Charley in Search of America
John Steinbeck
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“The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.”

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Like a pair of old slippers, or an episode of #TheWaltons on re-runs, this classic just gives me warm and fuzzies!

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