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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.
  - John Steinbeck more quotations on [Luck]
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
  - John Steinbeck more quotations on [Reality]
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
  - John Steinbeck more quotations on [Humankind]
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
  - John Steinbeck more quotations on [Advice]
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 more quotations on [Sleep] [Adversity]
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
  - John Steinbeck more quotations on [Change]
It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
  - John Steinbeck more quotations on [Places]
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
  - John Steinbeck more quotations on [Heartache]
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.
  - John Steinbeck more quotations on [Fishing]
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