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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, 
a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. 
Then gradually, I write one page and then another. 
One day's works is all I can permit myself to contemplate. 
--John Steinbeck 

When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses. 
In fact, they come to believe the witness causes the trouble. 
--John Steinbeck 

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved 
in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. 
--John Steinbeck 

We spend all our time searching for security, and then we hate it when we get it 
--John Steinbeck