Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECKThe final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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 believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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