Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent.
John SteinbeckThey's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
John SteinbeckShe had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
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They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way, for they never sounded the same repeated in their own kitchens.
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Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
John SteinbeckSamuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands
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Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.
John SteinbeckIf we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
John SteinbeckWith knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.
John SteinbeckWe 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.
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