Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitem…

John Steinbeck
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Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.30, Penguin
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