I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECKNo one wants advice – only corroboration.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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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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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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