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John Steinbeck [1902-1968] American

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John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American author of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories.

Time, Travel, Best, Change, Courage, Death, Experience, Fear, Good, Great, Intelligence, Marriage, Morning, Power, Sad, Space, Teacher, War, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.	Space, Time, Travel	101
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.	Fear, Power	102
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.		103
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.	Travel	104
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.	Great, Teacher	105
No one wants advice - only corroboration.		106
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.	Death	107
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.		108
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.		109
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.		110
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.		111
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.	Good, Time	112
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.		113
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.		114
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.	Courage	115
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.		116
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.	Best	117
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.	Time	118
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.	Sad	119
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.	Intelligence	120
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.		121
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, Morning, Wisdom	122
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.	Change	123
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.		124
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.		125
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.		126
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.		201
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.	War	202
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.	Marriage	203
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.		204
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.		205
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.		206
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.		207
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.		208
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.		209
Time is the only critic without ambition.		210
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?		211
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.		212
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.		213
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.		214
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.		215
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.		216

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