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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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It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing to be loved without satiety.
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Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.
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Thou mayest rule over sin.
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Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?
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You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
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The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
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I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
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Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.
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I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
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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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What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
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it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
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We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
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We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.
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Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.
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In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
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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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