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.
JOHN STEINBECKNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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