I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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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 are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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