I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.
("East of Eden")
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If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain.... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.John Steinbeck
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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