My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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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Men 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.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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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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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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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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