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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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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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Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.
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All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.
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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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Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
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Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
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The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.
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A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
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And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.
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I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.
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Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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