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We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.
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If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.
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You're buying years of work, toil in the sun you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
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The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
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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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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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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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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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Books are the best friends you can have they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
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All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
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I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.
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Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.
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When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.
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Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.
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