All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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