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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.
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You got to live before you can afford to die.
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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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We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
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I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.
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So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.
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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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Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
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It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
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And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
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I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.
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I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background.
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
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It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.
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All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
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Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.
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Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
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I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
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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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