When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages,
a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it.
Then gradually, I write one page and then another.
One day's works is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
--John Steinbeck
When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses.
In fact, they come to believe the witness causes the trouble.
--John Steinbeck
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved
in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
--John Steinbeck
We spend all our time searching for security, and then we hate it when we get it
--John Steinbeck
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