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

—  John Steinbeck

Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini

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