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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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California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.
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...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.
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The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
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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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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
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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 profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.
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With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.
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Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.
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Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.
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A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
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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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It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
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The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
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she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near
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