There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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