Quotes by John Steinbeck

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the...

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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided...

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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy...

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that...

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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar...

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and...

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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards,...

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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

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