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Only 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…
- A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good…
- They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of…
- Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
- What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for…
- 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…
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.
- A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when…
- Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of…
- The human is the only guilty animal.
- I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each…
- I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete…
- The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
- A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never…
- 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…
- We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
- Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
- If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
- Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
- No one wants advice - only corroboration.
- Time is the only critic without ambition.
- You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
- I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in…
- You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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