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Little Quotes by John Steinbeck
- 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…
- To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't…
- He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only…
- Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on…
- The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little…
- A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
- 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…
- ... every little boy thinks he invented sin.
- 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…
- Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box…
- I should have known […] I am the rain. […] I am the land […] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out…
- Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the…
- And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
- You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.
- 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…
- A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and…
- Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
- The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd…
- 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…
- If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
- I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them…
- Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets…
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- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
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