The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Quote by John Steinbeck

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

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

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of...

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of...

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy...

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy...

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past...

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past...

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

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

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up...

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to...

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to...

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and...

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and...

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar...

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar...

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I...

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I...

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if...

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle,...

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle,...

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Every day I work so hard Bringin' home my hard earned pay Try to love...

Every day I work so hard Bringin' home my hard earned pay Try to love...