The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECKI believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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