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John Steinbeck Quotes

«One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | About: Pain | Keywords: pains
«Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | About: Ideas | Keywords: couple, dozen, handle, rabbits, rabbit on
«I believe that love cannot be bought except with love»
«In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.»
«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.»
«We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: searching
«We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''»
«Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.»
«There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter»
«It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.»

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