Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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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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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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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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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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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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