How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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