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.
JOHN STEINBECKWrite freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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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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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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