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What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
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The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
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A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.
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The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.
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The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.
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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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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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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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Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
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That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
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It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
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All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
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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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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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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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