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We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.
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And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
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I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.
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Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.
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Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.
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It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing to be loved without satiety.
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Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.
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For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.
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And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.
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He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
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There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little they crash and shatter.
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The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
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It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?
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A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
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You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
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