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Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
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I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
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It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.
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A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.
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A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
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A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?
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Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
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The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.
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I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.
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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.
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
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People don't want advice...only corroboration.
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The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.
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Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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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Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.
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Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
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