He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.
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Quotes by John Steinbeck
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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The techniques of opening conversation are universal. 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 clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
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We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say, and to feel —, "yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
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.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Hope)
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
from the book "Sweet Thursday" by John Steinbeck