John Steinbeck Quotes

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A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.
- John Steinbeck

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
- John Steinbeck

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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.
- John Steinbeck

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

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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
- John Steinbeck

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I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now only that place where the books are kept.
- John Steinbeck

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A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.
- John Steinbeck

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

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

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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
- John Steinbeck

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.
- John Steinbeck

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The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
- John Steinbeck