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Don't ever ask directions of a Maine native, I was told.
Why ever not?
Somehow we think it is funny to misdirect people and we don't smile when we do it, but we laugh inwardly. It is our nature.

John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked.... In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.

John Steinbeck

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.

John Steinbeck

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

John Steinbeck

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

John Steinbeck