I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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