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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. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Cutting, Men

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

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• He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

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  Sarcastic, Stupid, Ideas

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.157, Penguin

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• We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

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  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.147, Penguin

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• I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

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  Dog, Stranger, Shots

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Of Mice and Men”, p.51, Penguin

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• Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction”, Viking Press

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• We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Science, Fields

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.80, Penguin

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• It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

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  Time, Men, Bridges

  John Steinbeck (1966). “Travels with Charley”

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• A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

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  Giving, Sick, Knees

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.97, Penguin

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• If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

  John Steinbeck

  Beer, Men, Towns

  "Cannery Row".

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• It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

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  Dog, Cat, Different

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.201, Penguin

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• It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

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  Kindness, Men, Understanding

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.13, Penguin

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

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  Brave, Chance

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.188, Penguin

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• Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

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  Men, Ease, Nests

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.113, Penguin

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• The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

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  New York, Thinking, People

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• He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

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  Ideas, Laughing, Victory

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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• Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

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  Might, Tendencies, Might Have Been

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.91, Penguin

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• You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.

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  Water, Drink, Drink Water

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Of Mice and Men”, p.20, Penguin

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• Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

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  Guy, Trouble, Interest

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

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  Men, Flames, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.341, Penguin

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• All we got is the family unbroke.

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  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.135, Hamilton Books

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• Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

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  Men, Hazards

  John Steinbeck (2010). “Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down”, p.13, Penguin

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• A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.

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  Nature, Sunset, Clouds

  John Steinbeck (1997). “The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

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  Wrath, Years, Preparation

  John Steinbeck (2006). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.38, Penguin

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• Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

  John Steinbeck

  Business, Lying, Important

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.95, Hamilton Books

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