It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate i…

John Steinbeck
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.8, Penguin
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