Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECKAll war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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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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To 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.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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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