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Very Quotes by John Steinbeck
- I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
- The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
- Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one…
- Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to…
- ... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
- Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls…
- Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San…
- One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and…
- I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned…
- 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…
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what…
- He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
- At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You…
- Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a…
- I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the…
- The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He…
- Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
- 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…
- 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…
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure…
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this…
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong