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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
Author
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Screenwriter
War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
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On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.
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It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
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Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.
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A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.
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Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.
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The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
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Thou mayest rule over sin.
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But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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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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It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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It don't cost money to ask.
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It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
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When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
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They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)
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I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
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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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