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There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.
John Steinbeck
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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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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.
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Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
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A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.
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I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness that assail one. It is as though the words were not only indelible but that they spread out like dye in water and color everything around them. A strange and mystic business, writing.
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I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
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On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.
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A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
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Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.
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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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Saints can spring from any soil.
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And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
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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'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
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There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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