# Quote — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

> 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.

- 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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