I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
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This journey had been like a full dinner of many courses, set before a starving man. At first he tries to eat all of everything, but as the meal progresses he finds he must forgo some things to keep his appetite and his taste buds functioning.
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Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.
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Then he said a wise and memorable thing. “You got to be awful rich to dress as bad as you do,” he said.

Travels with Charley. In search of America- John Steinbeck.Podría seguir, pero para eso es mejor leer el libro entero.