I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECKPerhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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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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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 so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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