I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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