I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECKI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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