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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

John Steinbeck

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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Growth People Soul
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Children Men
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECK

Darkness Grief Light Loss
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Kind Word Writing
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk

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