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.
JOHN STEINBECKI 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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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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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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