The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECKMan is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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 a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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