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When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

John Steinbeck
Country, Travel, New York
John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.54, Penguin

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

John Steinbeck
Country, Cynical, Levels

We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.

John Steinbeck
Country, Rights, America
John Steinbeck (2009). “Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team”, p.31, Penguin

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

John Steinbeck
Country, Texas, Cities
John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.125, Penguin

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

John Steinbeck
Country, Rain, Book
John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.2, Hamilton Books

The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

John Steinbeck
Country, Dream, Lonely

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

John Steinbeck
Country, New York, Cities
John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.401, Penguin UK

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