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she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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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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A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
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Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice once to make mistakes and once to correct them.
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I think I love you, Cal. -Abra I'm not good. -Cal Because you're not good. -Abra
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Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
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“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
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No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
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We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us.
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A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
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Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
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And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
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I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
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It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing to be loved without satiety.
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Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.
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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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