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I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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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 great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.
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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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Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
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Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
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To the heavens on the wings of a pig.
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That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.
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You can't slice up morals.
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Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.
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He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
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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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It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.
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A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
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A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.
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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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A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.
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Books are the best friends you can have they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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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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But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
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