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...to find where you are going, you must know where you are.
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
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How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)
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A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us.
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A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
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The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
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I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.
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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
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Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.
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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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Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.
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I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.
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There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.
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A good writer always works at the impossible.
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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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I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.
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Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
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There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere.
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