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• Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

  John Steinbeck

  Baby, Eggs, Shapes

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.108, Penguin

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• Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Tails, Good God

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Starting Over, Over You

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• You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

  John Steinbeck

  Smell, Rose, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.197, Hamilton Books

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• When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.

  John Steinbeck

  Fire, Needs, Breakfast

  John Steinbeck (1994). “The Pearl”, p.24, Penguin

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• He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.52, Penguin

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• Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Thinking, Design

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Home, Men

  John Steinbeck (1995). “To a God Unknown”, p.70, Penguin

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• 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 aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

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  Ignorance, Pieces, Wonder

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.73, Penguin

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• All of them had a restlessness in common.

  John Steinbeck

  Common, Restlessness

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.51, Penguin

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• When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.

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  Sweet, Men, Firsts

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Travel, Reading

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Jewels, Rivers

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

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• 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 to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

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  Wall, Hate, Fighting

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, He Man, Conversation

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.735, Penguin

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• A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

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  Nuts, Guy, Crooks

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

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  Medicine, Patient, Ends

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.709, Penguin

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• The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

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  Women, Wife, Trouble

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.451, Penguin UK

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• In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Want, Layers

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

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• It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

  John Steinbeck

  Change For The Better, Protest, Grows

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• A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

  John Steinbeck

  Reading, Men, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.84, Penguin

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• Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Men, Literature

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• To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

  John Steinbeck

  Monsters, Normal, Seems

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

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  Gone, Blast, Knows

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.256, Penguin

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• With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

  John Steinbeck

  Luxury, People, Want

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.474, Penguin

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