Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECKIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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