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 STEINBECKI 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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