Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECKWith all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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