American - Author | February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
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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.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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