How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
JOHN STEINBECKMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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