“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
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John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
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“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
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“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
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“We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.”
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“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”
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“We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it.”
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“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And th...”
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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
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“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of the...”
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“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear...”
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“Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love...”
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“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”