John Steinbeck quotes - page 7

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. (John Steinbeck)
If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known. View quote
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It is the hour of pearl-the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. View quote
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Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. View quote
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There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. View quote
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means - hell, it's complicated. View quote
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion. View quote
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People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all. View quote
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You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it? View quote
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You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff. View quote
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I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again. (John Steinbeck)
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one. View quote
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So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out. View quote
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I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra. View quote
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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate. View quote
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They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish) View quote
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We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not. View quote
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Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor. View quote
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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. View quote
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I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George. View quote
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There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow. (John Steinbeck)
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. View quote
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You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like. View quote
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Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to. View quote
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I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog. View quote
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