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John Steinbeck  Quotes
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people...

—John Steinbeck

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ReligionTexas
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But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a...

—John Steinbeck

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ChoiceFreedomFreedom-Of-Choice
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A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a...

—John Steinbeck

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Fiction
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Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants. Mostly it’s women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

—John Steinbeck

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Business
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The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of...

—John Steinbeck

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DutiesExposureFailures
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There are times that one treasures for all one’s life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.

—John Steinbeck

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HappyInspirationalTime
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The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

—John Steinbeck

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Amazing-WritingDarkMy-Kind-Of-Book
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It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a...

—John Steinbeck

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DeathLifeMemory
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Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.

—John Steinbeck

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GhostsHaunting
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Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately,...

—John Steinbeck

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MenPersonalityPhilosophy
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I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’swhy.

—John Steinbeck

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FriendsFriendship
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A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody...

—John Steinbeck

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Tom’s cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

—John Steinbeck

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CourageCowardiceGreat-Men
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Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

—John Steinbeck

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FoodHumor
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And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

—John Steinbeck

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ManPersonalityTraits
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American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash — all of them — surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered with rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins,...

—John Steinbeck

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AmericaGarbage
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Why, Tom – us people will go on livin’ when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we’re the people that live. They ain’t gonna wipe us out. Why, we’re the people – we go...

—John Steinbeck

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A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child....

—John Steinbeck

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Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reached it, Curley bounced in.”You seen a girl around here?” he demanded angrily.George said coldly,...

—John Steinbeck

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Conflict
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

—John Steinbeck

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Writing
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…and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath.

—John Steinbeck

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AttitudeLife-LessonsStruggle
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That’s why I’m talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

—John Steinbeck

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HeartJudgementLack-Of-Judgement
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Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in...

—John Steinbeck

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Creativity
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It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.

—John Steinbeck

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AnglesEvilHypocrisy
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Death was a friend, and sleep was Death’s brother.

—John Steinbeck

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At last he said, “Did you come out of the big mountains?”Gitano shook his head slowly. “No, I walked down the Salinas Valley.”The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. “Did you ever go into...

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AgeDescription
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I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for...

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Awesome
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A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it...

—John Steinbeck

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Storytelling
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Don’t you love Jesus?’ Well, I thought an’ I thought an’ finally I says, ‘No, I don’t know nobody name’ Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

—John Steinbeck

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Religion
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I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.

—John Steinbeck

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Freedom
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Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you’d shake a rug.

—John Steinbeck

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A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....

—John Steinbeck

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AloneDeathFeel
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Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

—John Steinbeck

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Honesty
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It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all.

—John Steinbeck

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… you can’t start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to...

—John Steinbeck

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This is beyond understanding.” said the king. “You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?”And Merlin said quietly, “Because I am wise....

—John Steinbeck

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FeelingKing-ArthurKnights
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Sure, cried the tenant men, but it’s our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good,...

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InspirationalLandLife-And-Death
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Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well,...

—John Steinbeck

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ChildrenMemoryPhilosophy
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I ain’t got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don’t have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin’...

—John Steinbeck

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FriendshipLoneliness
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A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood...

—John Steinbeck

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Nature
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He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

—John Steinbeck

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I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here....

—John Steinbeck

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AmericaPerceptiveTravel
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…..and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an...

—John Steinbeck

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HumorPartyYouth
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But it isn’t hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Somehow the hunting process has to...

—John Steinbeck

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AmericaHumorHunting
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He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

—John Steinbeck

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LonelinessSpeech
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We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

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Guilt
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Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.

—John Steinbeck

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BirthDeathLife
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As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

—John Steinbeck

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AuthorsWriting
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I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to...

—John Steinbeck

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Life-Lessons
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Don’t you dare take the lazy way. It’s too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don’t let me catch you doing it! Now — look close at me so you will remember. Whatever...

—John Steinbeck

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BlameExcusesFamily
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