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In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
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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In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
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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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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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I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.
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Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?
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There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
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I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.
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Saints can spring from any soil.
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Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.
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And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, Use it well, use it wisely.
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You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
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Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.
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Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.
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To the heavens on the wings of a pig.
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A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.
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The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.
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