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Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Salinas
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She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.
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Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.
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You got to live before you can afford to die.
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A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
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Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
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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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You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.
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... every little boy thinks he invented sin.
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