All John Steinbeck Quotes
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
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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.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
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If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
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These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
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