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cdc7616
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In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.
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politics
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John Steinbeck |
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562d2b3
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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.
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John Steinbeck |
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2dbeca7
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I guess she's just nuts,' he said. 'And if she's nuts, a guy's got to do nuts things. You don't think you could say the hell with her?
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John Steinbeck |
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07c30b3
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In town in a whorehouse. That's where your money's goin'. Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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John Steinbeck |
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865e82d
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I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass.
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John Steinbeck |
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35594f5
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By whipping himself he protected himself against whipping by someone else.
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John Steinbeck |
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7e6a708
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
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John Steinbeck |
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127a909
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Puts a weight on ya. Goin' out lookin' for somepin you know you ain't gonna find.
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John Steinbeck |
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959385d
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A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.
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strength
organism
endurance
reproduction
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John Steinbeck |
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e0c8e50
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A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
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John Steinbeck |
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1b93f20
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qlt l'm bhdw: "'shkrk. lqd t`lmt shyy'an Hqyqyan ry'`an, whw 'nk lw wq`t fy wrT@ 'w knt fy Hj@ llms`d@, ftwjh llns lfqr. fhm lwHydwn ldhyn yqdmwn lms`d@, lwHydwn fqT "
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John Steinbeck |
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a1dfac6
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While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in. silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.
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philosophical
humor
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John Steinbeck |
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05bcb4e
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Pilon complained, "It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head. It proves nothing." "I like it" said Pablo. "I like it because it hasn't any meaning you can see, and still it does seem to mean something, I can't tell what."
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John Steinbeck |
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953fc43
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If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain.... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.
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John Steinbeck |
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6d8eb07
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I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me.
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weather
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John Steinbeck |
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ef235d9
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You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
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John Steinbeck |
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7074dbf
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It was not laziness if he was a rich man. Only the poor were lazy. Just as only the poor were ignorant. A rich man who didn't know anything was spoiled or independent.
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John Steinbeck |
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e5df316
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The fool supply was controlled...
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John Steinbeck |
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be45dab
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There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize.
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John Steinbeck |
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fc2b16b
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Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman.
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John Steinbeck |
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ca23975
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I should have known," he whispered. "I am the rain." And yet he looked dully down the mountains of his body where the hills fell to an abyss. He felt the driving rain, and heard it whipping down, pattering on the ground. He saw his hills grow dark with moisture. Then a lancing pain shot through the heart of the world. "I am the land," he said, "and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while." And the storm thickened, and..
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John Steinbeck |
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5efc7d7
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They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.
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John Steinbeck |
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5b0ec15
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in 50 years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?
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John Steinbeck |
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5e92eb3
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I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all.
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John Steinbeck |
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d1ff0f6
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Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher.
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John Steinbeck |
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19ac410
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I seen fellas like you before. You ain't askin' nothin'; you're jus' singin' a kinda song. 'What we comin' to?' You don' wanta know. Country's movin' aroun', goin' places. They's folks dyin' all aroun'. Maybe you'll die pretty soon, but you won't know nothin'. I seen too many fellas like you. You don't want to know nothin'. Just sing yourself to sleep with a song--'What we comin' to?
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the-grapes-of-wrath
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John Steinbeck |
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1271f18
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I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.
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John Steinbeck |
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4d84e69
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A child may ask, "What is the world's story about?" And a grown man or woman may wonder, "What way will the world go? How does it end and, while we're at it, what's the story about?" I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught--in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in..
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John Steinbeck |
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02d931b
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What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways? We don't want no pants rabbits.
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John Steinbeck |
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f31e2d8
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I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost
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John Steinbeck |
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96bdb6f
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Nobody knows. What good's an opinion if you don't know? My grandfather knew the number of whiskers in the Almighty's beard. I don't even know what happened yesterday, let alone tomorrow. He knew what it was that makes a rock or table. I don't even understand the formula that says nobody knows. We've got nothing to go on -- got no way to think about things.
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specialization
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John Steinbeck |
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3b16920
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And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world in never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.
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John Steinbeck |
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baa4fbe
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And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go." "Don't you like it here?" "Sure. It's all right, but I wish I could go." "You don't even know where I'm going." "I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere."
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John Steinbeck |
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c65f5ff
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I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.
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depression
writing
education
society
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John Steinbeck |
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40771ad
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My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. When I went away I had died, and so became fixed and unchangeable. My return caused only confusion and uneasiness.
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John Steinbeck |
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a4868c6
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I eat stories like grapes.
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samuel
stories
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John Steinbeck |
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63007a9
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Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.
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fiction
john-steinbeck
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John Steinbeck |
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11bf857
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Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.
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John Steinbeck |
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41bdc7f
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We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man. Yes, but the bank is only made of men.
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greed
the-grapes-of-wrath
capitalism
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John Steinbeck |
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6ea5f7c
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Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.
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john-steinbeck
healing
sickness
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John Steinbeck |
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454f6a8
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It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.
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John Steinbeck |
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7f086e3
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For how can one know colour in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
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John Steinbeck |
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527dc40
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They were fed and clothed and taken care of until they were too old, and then they were kicked out. This ending was no deterrent. No one who is young is ever going to be old.
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John Steinbeck |
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393d97c
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Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.
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John Steinbeck |