An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECKMan is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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