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.
JOHN STEINBECKAn answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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