In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECKNo one wants advice – only corroboration.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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 am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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