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I guess there are never enough books.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Screenwriter
War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
Steinbeck
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Books are the best friends you can have they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
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You're buying years of work, toil in the sun you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.
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Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
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And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
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In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
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A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
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I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.
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When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.
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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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One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.
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[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
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On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.
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There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
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He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.
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