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Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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War Correspondent
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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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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.
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Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.
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And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
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Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.
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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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Strength and success they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
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The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
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Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
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They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
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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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There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.
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The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.
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My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.
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All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
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Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.
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There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.
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