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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
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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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Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
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He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
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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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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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For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.
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A dog is a bond between strangers.
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You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?
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Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
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It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.
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Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.
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My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.
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I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.
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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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There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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