American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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