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.
JOHN STEINBECKTo finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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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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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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