If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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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 believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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