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Saints can spring from any soil.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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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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The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?
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War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.
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The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.
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The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.
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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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This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.
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A fallow field is a sin.
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People don't want advice...only corroboration.
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There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
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He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.
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But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.
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Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
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