Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECKThe final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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