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Makes Quotes by John Steinbeck
- It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way.…
- The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
- The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
- He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man…
- Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.…
- Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
- ..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
- But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's…
- Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her…
- 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…
- The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That…
- Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna…
- Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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