Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECKI believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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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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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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