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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.
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 Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
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Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
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They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
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A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
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