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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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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