My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECKAll war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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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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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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