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The power of an attitude is amazing
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
Steinbeck
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
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Thou mayest rule over sin.
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Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.
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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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There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
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A dog is a bond between strangers.
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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.
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I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
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Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.
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If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.
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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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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
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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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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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The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.
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