John Steinbeck

US novelist, short story writer, essayist; Pulitzer Prize/National Book Award, 1940; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962.

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It is amazing the terrors, the magic, the prayers, the straitening shyness that assails one.

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I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line.

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Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

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How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? No. Leave it. Burn it.

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I am alone and bewildered.

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from nothing to nothing is no time at all

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awful not to be loved

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Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to.

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And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.

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A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

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when two people meet, each one is changed by the other

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we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world

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It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

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All great and precious things are lonely.

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this is what I am

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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

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war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal

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I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.