I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECKI shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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