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There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy
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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.
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Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
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When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
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Courage and fear were one thing too.
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War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.
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This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.
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We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
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The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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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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And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.
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They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
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Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.
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The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.
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My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.
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All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
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We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
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As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.
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Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
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