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Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
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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Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
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I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.
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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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We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.
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When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.
John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
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Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
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life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.
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Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
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Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.
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It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
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it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
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... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
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