John Steinbeck

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ↗

— 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 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. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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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. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. ↗

— 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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