I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECK
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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