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Too Quotes by John Steinbeck
- If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
- It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
- One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
- He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
- These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might…
- I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked…
- I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in…
- 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…
- Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
- You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.
- For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners,…
- A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's…
- I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the…
- A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page…
- Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now…
- Courage and fear were one thing too.
- It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our…
- It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved,…
- I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of…
- A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a…
- It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must…
- I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance…
- I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
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