If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECKA 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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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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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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