It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECKA man without words is a man without thought.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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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.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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