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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. - John Steinbeck Quotes

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

American Author Books And Reading

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. - John Steinbeck Quotes

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

American Author

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

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

American Author Conviction

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

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.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory - John Steinbeck Quotes

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Death

The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. - John Steinbeck Quotes

The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

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

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

Time is the only critic without ambition. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Ambition American Author

It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second. - John Steinbeck Quotes

It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.

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

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

American Author Inexplicable

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