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John Steinbeck Quotes
"Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk"
"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world"
"I guess the truth is that people are good at heart until something breaks them and then they aren’t"
"It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself"
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness"
"When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people"
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen"
"I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen"
"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone"
"I suspect people of plotting to make me happy"
"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"
"The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world"
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty"
"Time is the only critic without ambition"
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found"
"There is more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty"
"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ"
"People like you to be something, preferably what they are"
"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why"
"To be alive at all is to have scars"
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