I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECKThe final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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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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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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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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