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A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernest Steinbeck
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Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.
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I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
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There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy
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We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
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I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
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So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.
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We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
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I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.
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But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.
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It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
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Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.
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Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.
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It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
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I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.
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