If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECKAn 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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A man without words is a man without thought.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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