Quotation by

John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Marriage

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Both a journey and a marriage involve unpredictable experiences that cannot be fully planned or controlled. Trying to dominate every aspect of them leads to mistakes because they naturally evolve beyond our control.

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