If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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