Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECKMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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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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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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