To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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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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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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