I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECKI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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And 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.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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