Tag: John Steinbeck
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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck
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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
John Steinbeck
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck
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Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.
John Steinbeck
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck