Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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 be alive at all is to have scars.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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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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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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