A Quote by John Steinbeck

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

John Steinbeck

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Quote Author

John Steinbeck
American - Author
February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968

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