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John Steinbeck Inspirational Quotes (404)

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I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.
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So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.
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Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!
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When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.
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And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, Use it well, use it wisely.
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War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.
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I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.
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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.
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It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing to be loved without satiety.
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Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.
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Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.
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Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.
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And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
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The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.
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Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
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Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.
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... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
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Courage and fear were one thing too.
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Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
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