It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECKI am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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