My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECKNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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