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Letter "J" » John Steinbeck Quotes
«I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
dedication, membership, passionately, perfectibility
«Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ceased, continues, in time, movement, time and space, trip
«I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.»
«A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.»
«I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.»
«Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.»
«I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.»
«Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.»
«I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
apologetic, grateful, impel, impelled, impelling, impels, roar, Roaring Lion, squeak, squeaking, squeaks, squeak by
«These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.»
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