Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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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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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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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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