With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECKIn the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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