John Steinbeck Quotes About Life
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People do not want advice - they want corroboration.
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Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
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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.
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I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
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A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?
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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."
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I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
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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.
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I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
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