“A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”

—  John Steinbeck, book The Pearl

Source: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III

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American writer 1902–1968

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