In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECKNo one wants advice – only corroboration.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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 finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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