What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECKAh, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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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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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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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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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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