I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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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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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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