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Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice once to make mistakes and once to correct them.
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
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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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. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.
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A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
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It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.
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Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
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In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
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For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
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Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.
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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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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
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And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
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I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.
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As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.
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He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
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You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
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Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.
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A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
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There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
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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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There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
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Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.
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