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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.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962)

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

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

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“Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

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“Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: On Critics - Writers at Work (1977)

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“I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, Stockholm, December 10, 1962

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“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”

- John Steinbeck

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“I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962 (2007 edition)

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“I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: The Portable Steinbeck (2012 edition), Penguin - ISBN: 9781101616345

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“I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: Travels with Charley: In Search of America (2001 edition), Penguin UK - ISBN: 9780141190662

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“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: The Portable Steinbeck (2012 edition), Penguin - ISBN: 9781101616345

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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.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini

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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.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

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“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: The Grapes of Wrath (2006 edition), Penguin - ISBN: 9781440637124

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“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”

- John Steinbeck

Source/Notes: New York Times (2 June 1969)

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John Steinbeck Quote

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