In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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