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

  John Steinbeck

  Fear, Light, Color

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.148, Penguin

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• A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Littles, Hopeless

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.90, Penguin

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• Es una experiencia común que un problema difícil por la noche se resuelva por la mañana después de que la comisión del sueño haya trabajado en él.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• A man without words is a man without thought.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Men, Contradicting

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.125, Penguin

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• And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Stories, Courses

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.237, Penguin

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• Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

  John Steinbeck

  Journey, Space, Long

  John Steinbeck (1966). “Travels with Charley”

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• I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

  John Steinbeck

  Revenge, Way, Forget

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.89, Penguin

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• This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".

  John Steinbeck

  Corte, Gente, Para Siempre

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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• Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

  John Steinbeck

  Littles, Clown, Seals

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A veces, una mentira se dice con amabilidad. No creo que nunca funcione con amabilidad. El dolor rápido de la verdad puede pasar, pero la lenta y carcomida agonía de una mentira nunca se pierde.

  John Steinbeck

  Dolor, Bondad, Mentira

  John Steinbeck (2002). "Al este del Edén", p.376, Penguin

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• Todo lo que cuesta dinero es barato.

  John Steinbeck

  Money, Cost

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• Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Bait, Literature

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.214, Penguin

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• A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

  John Steinbeck

  Horse, Men, Feet

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• Todos los hombres son morales. Sólo sus vecinos no lo son.

  John Steinbeck

  Hombres, Moral, Vecino

  John Steinbeck (2008). "El invierno de nuestro descontento", p.157, Penguin

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• El arma definitiva es el cerebro, todo lo demás es suplementario.

  John Steinbeck

  Cerebro, Finales, Armas

  John Steinbeck (2008). "Los hechos del rey Arturo y sus nobles caballeros: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)", p.145, Penguin

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• You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

  John Steinbeck

  Past, People, Three

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.159, Penguin

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

  John Steinbeck

  Pleasure, Travels With Charley, Lost

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.43, Penguin

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• When a man comes to die,
  no matter what his talents and influences and genius,
  if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him
  and his dying a cold horror.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Dying, Genius

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

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• This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

  John Steinbeck

  Freedom, Fighting, Government

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.827, Penguin

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• Nadie quiere consejos, sólo corroboración.

  John Steinbeck

  Entrepreneur, Advice, Mind Your Own Business

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.102, Penguin

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• The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Moved On, Fields

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.228, Hamilton Books

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• Un alma triste puede matar más rápido que un germen.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Soul, Literature

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• No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Literature, Being The Best

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.64, Penguin

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• Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

  John Steinbeck

  Socialism, Delusional, Form

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• To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspiring, Writing, Sadness

  "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters".

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