All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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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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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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