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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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for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.
John Steinbeck
Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.
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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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Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.
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Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.
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Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
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I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
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Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
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Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.
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Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.
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Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?
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Books are the best friends you can have they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
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The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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I think I love you, Cal. -Abra I'm not good. -Cal Because you're not good. -Abra
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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
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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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