In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECKAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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