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Great Quotes by John Steinbeck
- We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity…
- It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does…
- I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
- 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,…
- Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful…
- And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in…
- It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and…
- There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have…
- I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the…
- The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.
- 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…
- 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…
- When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up…
- Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
- If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone…
- All great and precious things are lonely.
- Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of…
- Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on…
- But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his…
- Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part…
- Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of…
- The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That…
- I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
- Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house…
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