When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the prote…

John Steinbeck
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When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone. ✨ John Steinbeck (2008). The Winter of Our Discontent, p.150, Penguin
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