Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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