And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. “I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is by John Steinbeck, from his memoir “Travels With Charley: In Search of America.” Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.”ĩ. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. Bush reflected poignantly about his years in West Texas:
His universe is big enough to gratify any ambition. “What you Northerners never appreciate… is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks… A writer can build a perfectly satisfactory reputation in Texas and he doesn’t give a damn about what critics in Kalamazoo think. James Michener, who wrote the 1985 blockbuster, TEXAS, explained the state as follows: In more accessible language, McMurtry also famously said: “Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.”ħ. Elements of that primal venturing will surely inform several generations.” The power of such experience will not sift out of the descendants of that venturer in one generation and produce Middletown. Imagine yourself as a small hopeful immigrant family, alone on the Staked Plains, with the Comanche and the Kiowa still on the loose. “What my whole body of work says… is that Texans spent so long getting past the frontier experience because that experience is so overwhelmingly powerful. Where does this attitude come from? Larry McMurtry thinks it comes from the influence of the old Texas frontier. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.”Ħ. “There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. Conrad Hilton bought his very first hotel in Cisco, and so really launched his empire in Texas. We don’t need math purists debating Texas hyperbole.ĥ. Please don’t do the math on this and write to tell me that at ten miles a day this would only take three months. “In the covered wagon days, if a baby was born in Texarkana while the family was crossing into the Lone Star State, by the time they reached El Paso, the baby would be in the third grade.” Speaking to the size of Texas, Wallace O. He was a famous journalist who published the quote in his incredible, best-selling book “Inside U.S.A.”Ĥ. Many people think Gunther was a big gruff Texas oil man.
If not, why embarrass him by asking.” John Gunther is credited with this. “I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand.”ģ. Mary Lasswell, who grew up in Brownsville and wrote the famous book “I’ll Take Texas” said: I think he really said, “Y’all can go to hell,” but grammatical purity likely corrupted the original transcription.Ģ. “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” Davy Crockett said this angrily after losing his Tennessee bid for the U.S.
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