Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECKThe craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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