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.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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