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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.
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Yes, you should talk, he said. Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.
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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 writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.
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A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.
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It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
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Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
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Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
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Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
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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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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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Some people there are who, being grown forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.
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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
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...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
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The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.
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