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“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

—John Steinbeck, Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter

“To be alive at all is to have scars. ”

—John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical … The other is an outpouring of everything good in you ... The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.”

John Steinbeck in a letter to his son.

“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen." ”

—John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

I wish my life was as interesting as the books I read

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)

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