All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECKA writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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