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Ain't many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

— John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men (1937)

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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.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Journal of a Novel (1969)

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

East of Eden (1952)

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is — and a woman too, I guess.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

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

East of Eden (1952)

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path.

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Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.

Richard Francis Burton

All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.

Lucius Shepard

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