American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECKWrite freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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