A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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 great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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