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People don't want advice...only corroboration.
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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And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.
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A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
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Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
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Some people there are who, being grown forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
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Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.
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I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.
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We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
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An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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You got to live before you can afford to die.
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They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
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The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
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Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
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He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?
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And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, Use it well, use it wisely.
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What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
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The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.
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