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More Quotes by John Steinbeck
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
The human is the only guilty animal.
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.
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.