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John Steinbeck
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the wo...
“I guess there are never enough books.”
“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times...
“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot...
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I...
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.”
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and ...
“A man without words is a man without thought.”
“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature...
“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy pe...
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repress...
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
“Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven,...
“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 doi...
“Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a...
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”
“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that wh...
“If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about e...
“You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”
