I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECKThe nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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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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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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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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