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Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernest Steinbeck
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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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But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.
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Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.
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...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
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I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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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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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.
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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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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.
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You got to live before you can afford to die.
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Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.
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Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?
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You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
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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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