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 STEINBECKDon’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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