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More Quotes by John Steinbeck
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
