Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECKI shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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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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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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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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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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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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