"Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
"I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age."
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Source: John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.233, Penguin
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