In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECKTeaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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.
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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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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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