If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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