John Steinbeck Quotes

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

John Steinbeck

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• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

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• I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

  

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• What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

  

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• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

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• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

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• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

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• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

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• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

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• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

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• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

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• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

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• I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

  

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• Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.

  

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• My record speaks for itself.

  

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• There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

  

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• Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

  

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• So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

  

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• History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.

  

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• I have a rendezvous with life.

  

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• We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Attention
  • Wife
  • Value