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 STEINBECKPerhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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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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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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