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Quotes by John Steinbeck
I have owed you this letter for a very long time, but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.
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All hell has broken loose. I admit our Russian is limited, but we can say hello, come in, you are beautiful, oh no you don't. So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. Something has slipped badly.
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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.
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What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
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In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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