Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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