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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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When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.
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There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.
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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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I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.
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All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
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Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.
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Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
John Steinbeck
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
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Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.
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Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.
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I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
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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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The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.
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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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I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.
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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
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