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  • Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

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    John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.175, Penguin

  • A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

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    John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.131, Penguin

  • Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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    John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  • A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

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  • And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

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    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

  • He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

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    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.52, Penguin

  • I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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    John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin
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John Steinbeck

  • Born: February 27, 1902
  • Died: December 20, 1968
  • Occupation: Author
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