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Travels with Charley in Search of America

Book by John Steinbeck · 11 quotes · Travels With Charley, Travel, Ifs

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

“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.”