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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

~John Steinbeck

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

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These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 27th, 1902

Died: December 20th, 1968

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