I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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