# Quote — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

> "I'm sorry," Ethan said. "You have taught me something — maybe three things, rabbit footling mine. Three things will never be believed — the true, the probable, and the logical. I know now where to get the money to start my fortune."

- Author: [John Steinbeck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md)
- Book: [The Winter of Our Discontent](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-winter-of-our-discontent.md)
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> There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.

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> No one wants advice — only corroboration.

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> Can you disbelieve in something you don't know about? […] It isn't that I don't believe but that I don't know.

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