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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Gagasan itu seperti kelinci. Anda mendapatkan pasangan dan belajar bagaimana menangani mereka, dan segera Anda memiliki selusin.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Tidak ada yang benar-benar tahu tentang manusia lain. Yang terbaik yang bisa dia lakukan adalah mengira bahwa mereka seperti dirinya.

Aku percaya wanita yang kuat mungkin lebih kuat dari pria, terutama jika ia punya cinta di hatinya. Kupikir wanita yang mencintai tidak dapat dihancurkan.

Ayah dan anak adalah musuh alami dan masing-masing lebih bahagia dan lebih aman dalam menjaga seperti itu.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Untuk menyelesaikan adalah kesedihan untuk penulis, kematian yang sedikit. Dia menempatkan kata terakhir dan hal itu dilakukan. Tapi itu tidak benar-benar dilakukan. Cerita berlanjut dan meninggalkan penulis di belakang, karena tidak ada cerita yang pernah dilakukan.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

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

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

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.