Tag: John Steinbeck
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck
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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.
John Steinbeck
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
John Steinbeck
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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
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It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
John Steinbeck