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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
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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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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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
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A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
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Courage and fear were one thing too.
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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
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Thou mayest rule over sin.
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...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.
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Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
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But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.
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Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
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I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.
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Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.
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The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
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If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.
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An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
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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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