A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECKTo be alive at all is to have scars.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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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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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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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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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK