The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECKI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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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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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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