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Back Quotes by John Steinbeck
- If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have…
- Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
- But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or…
- I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
- But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the…
- He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.
- An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a…
- But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral…
- Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure.…
- When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech…
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- ...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
- This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow…
- We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest…
- The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no…
- Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his…
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