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― John Steinbeck, quote from Travels with Charley: In Search of AmericaīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, We find after years of struggle that we not take a trip a trip takes us.” And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. I set this matter down not to instruct others but to inform myself.A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. Four hoarse blasts of a ships's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age.In middle age I was assured greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. an honest moving book by one of our great writers." -The San Francisco Examiner "This is superior Steinbeck-a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery." -John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate "The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed.“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would this itch. an honest moving book by one of our great writers." -The San Francisco Examiner "This is superior Steinbeck-a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery." -John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate "The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed." -Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly, "Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe." -The New York Times Book Review "Profound, sympathetic, often angry.
"Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe." -The New York Times Book Review "Profound, sympathetic, often angry.
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