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  2. Discover John Steinbeck famous and rare quotes. Share John Steinbeck quotations about writing, literature and books. "Socialism never took root in America because the..."

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      When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm...

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  3. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  4. “She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever really deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall, the family will to function would be gone.” John Steinbeck author

    • “If you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you. […] If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry.
    • “Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.”
    • “Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about.
    • “Now as always—humility and terror. Fear that the working of my pen cannot capture the grinding of my brain. It is so easy to understand why the ancients prayed for the help of a Muse.
  5. Feb 27, 2013 · After a tumultuous divorce with his second wife, Gwyn, the mother of the boys, and a long and usually loving marriage but also difficult relationship with his first wife, Carol, Steinbeck had...

  6. Jan 12, 2012 · John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son. By Maria Popova. Nobel laureate John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902–December 20, 1968) might be best-known as the author of East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men, but he was also a prolific letter-writer. Steinbeck: A Life in Letters ...

  7. 4075 quotes from John Steinbeck: 'I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.', 'And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.', and 'Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.'

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