Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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