If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECKA man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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