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First Quotes by John Steinbeck
- The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
- There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
- In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there,…
- 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,…
- People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments...
- Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one…
- I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness…
- It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of…
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
- George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches,…
- The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
- There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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