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.
JOHN STEINBECKOut of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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