Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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How 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.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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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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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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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 so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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