In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECKHow can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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.
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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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