Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
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Quotes by John Steinbeck
If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.
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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means: hell, it's complicated.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
We could live offa the fatta the lan'.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.
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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.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck