John Steinbeck Short Quotes

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

John Steinbeck
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

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A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.

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I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

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A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

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You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplementary.

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We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.

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You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff.

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The earth was generous and outgoing here in the heartland.
Of Michigan

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A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.

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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

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All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

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Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

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There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

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There would come a time in our poverty when we needed a party.

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Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

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The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

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The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

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Maybe everybody in the whole damn world's scared of each other.

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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments...

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

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You must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

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All the world's great have been little boys who wanted the moon.

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For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

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A man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

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She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near

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It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

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