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"30 John Steinbeck Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 February 1902. Died: 20 December 1968 | Author |

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Man Varmit Trap Bait
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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Writers Below Clowns Trained seals
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
Time Critic Ambition
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Give Critic Write Play
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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Spend Time Security Hate
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Discipline Written word Stupidity Dishonesty
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power Corrupt Fear Loss
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ

Sad Soul Kill Germ
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Wants Advice Corroboration
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Trip Continues Time Ceased
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Climate Bores Like Weather
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Men Change Wind Dawn
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Loneliness Writer Explain Inexplicable
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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.

Grateful Apologetic Pride Profession
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Writer Believe Dedication Literature
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Profession Book writing Stable Business
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Find Pains Rain Falling
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

You Advice Agrees Wanted
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Choose Thought Action Death
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Experience Problem Resolved Sleep
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Journey Marriage Wrong Control
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To be alive at all is to have scars.

Alive Scars
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

You Understand People Feel
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

Now You Perfect Good
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Anything that just costs money is cheap.

Anything Costs Money Cheap
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I guess I’m trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

Grab Anything Goes by Come around
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Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Money Change Sickness Symptoms
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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Idea Beaten Victory Defeat
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Don't worry Losing Hurry Good
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All great and precious things are lonely.

Great Precious Things Lonely
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John Steinbeck Quotes & Sayings