John Steinbeck quotes
"In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world."
"I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. "
"The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic."
"No one wants advice -- only corroboration."
"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."
"I know this--a man got to do what he got to do."
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, em"