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.
JOHN STEINBECK
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
JOHN STEINBECK