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It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

— John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat (1935)

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone.

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Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.

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