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John Steinbeck Quotes

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What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us  (John Steinbeck Quotes) ... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Saints can spring from any soil  (John Steinbeck Quotes) ... every little boy thinks he invented sin  (John Steinbeck Quotes) I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be  (John Steinbeck Quotes) A man is a lonely thing  (John Steinbeck Quotes) A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it  (John Steinbeck Quotes) And if I go alone, I don’t even have to talk  (John Steinbeck Quotes) But a man needs company  (John Steinbeck Quotes) 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  (John Steinbeck Quotes) But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There’s no godliness there  (John Steinbeck Quotes) The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty  (John Steinbeck Quotes) His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress  (John Steinbeck Quotes) The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people  (John Steinbeck Quotes) This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected  (John Steinbeck Quotes) I’ve done my damndest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags, I don’t want him satisfied  (John Steinbeck Quotes) If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help - the only ones  (John Steinbeck Quotes) It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second  (John Steinbeck Quotes) One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella  (John Steinbeck Quotes) A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun  (John Steinbeck Quotes) It doesn’t matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can’t understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. and who in his mind has not probed the black water?  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria  (John Steinbeck Quotes) I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There’s nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists  (John Steinbeck Quotes) I remember as a child reading or hearing the words ‘The Great Divide’ and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China  (John Steinbeck Quotes)
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