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.
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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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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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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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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