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Why Quotes by John Steinbeck
- We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good…
- Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who…
- 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…
- I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing…
- 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 have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
- Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy…
- Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me,…
- But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been
- 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…
- Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an…
- I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
- One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all…
- 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…
- This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan…
- 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…
- But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand…
- I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would…
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- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming… — Unknown Author
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes