A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it. ✨ John Steinbec…

John Steinbeck
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A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it. ✨ John Steinbeck (2012). Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.293, Penguin
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