Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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