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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
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In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
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Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
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A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.
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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
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A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us.
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There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.
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The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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 comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
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Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
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