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... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
John Steinbeck
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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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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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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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There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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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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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 American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
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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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If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.
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...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
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It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.
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We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
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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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Saints can spring from any soil.
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[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
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A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson
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Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.
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