I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECKYou’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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