A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECKMen 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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