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We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
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So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
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There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
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she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near
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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.
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A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
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But a man needs company.
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The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
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Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
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The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
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But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been
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In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
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And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
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If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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