The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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