Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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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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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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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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 believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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