Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECKA sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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