It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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