If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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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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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 happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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