Travels with Charley Quotes

“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

topic:women

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

topic:reality romance

“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

“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

topic:change

“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

topic:writing

“My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

topic:man

“a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

topic:marriage control

“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

topic:learning children

“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

topic:virtue value

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

topic:sadness killing

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