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Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.
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I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere.
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For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
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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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The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
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I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.
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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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