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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
John Steinbeck -
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
John Steinbeck -
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck -
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck -
It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place - everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
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.
John Steinbeck -
No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.
John Steinbeck
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I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.
John Steinbeck -
There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
John Steinbeck -
To be alive at all is to have scars.
John Steinbeck -
You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
John Steinbeck -
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.
John Steinbeck -
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck
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'When you argue with a child,' she said warmly, 'you give a good argument and the child says yah, yah! You understand him and he doesn't listen, so the child wins.'
John Steinbeck -
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck -
Strength and success- they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
John Steinbeck -
He didn't believe in psychiatrists, he said. But actually he did believe in them, so much that he was afraid of them.
John Steinbeck -
His guard was up now and he wasn't listening; he was only angry because here was a world he could not enter and so he had to disbelieve in its existence. He fell back on the world he knew.
John Steinbeck -
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
John Steinbeck
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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck -
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck -
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck -
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
John Steinbeck