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Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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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.
John Steinbeck
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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
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No one who is young is ever going to be old.
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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.
John Steinbeck
Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.
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You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
John Steinbeck
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.
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I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.
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I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
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A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
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There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
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I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.
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I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.
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Saints can spring from any soil.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.
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It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
John Steinbeck
