Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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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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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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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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