“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.”

— John Steinbeck , book Sweet Thursday

Sweet Thursday (1954)

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American writer 1902–1968

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Keep you warm, wont let you shiver
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come on everybody time to deliver.”

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Preserve the meaning of my rhyme:
Love is not kindly nor yet grim
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Then today I started loving you again.”

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“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

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Variant: Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 127
Context: Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.