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John Steinbeck Quotes: "You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself."

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.




John Steinbeck Quotes: "Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment."

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.




John Steinbeck Quotes: "If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

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 Quotes: "Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk."

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.




John Steinbeck Quotes: "Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory."

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "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."

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.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "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."

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.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God."

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.




John Steinbeck Quotes: "Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional."

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it."

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments"

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments



John Steinbeck Quotes: "If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick."

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "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."

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.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly."

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?



John Steinbeck Quotes: "An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion."

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "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."

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.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "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."

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.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids."

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I guess there are never enough books."

I guess there are never enough books.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger."

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "We don't take a trip. A trip takes us."

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable."

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself."

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money."

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought."

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done."

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it."

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat."

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper."

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis."

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing."

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "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."

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.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer."

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession."

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards."

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way."

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.



John Steinbeck Quotes: "What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately."

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.