In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECKI believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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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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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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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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