I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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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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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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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