There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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