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 STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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