Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECKI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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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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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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 mediocrity escapes criticism.
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