I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

John Steinbeck


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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

John Steinbeck


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These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

John Steinbeck


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The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

John Steinbeck


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For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

John Steinbeck


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I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

John Steinbeck


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Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

John Steinbeck

Stichwörter: religion



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Anything that just costs money is cheap.

John Steinbeck

Stichwörter: value



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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

John Steinbeck

Stichwörter: courage truth-telling crucifixion



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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 those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

Stichwörter: life



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