John Steinbeck quotes
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try to live so that our death brings no pleasure to the world. 
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. 
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. 
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. 
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion. 
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. 
Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. 
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Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
All great and precious things are lonely.
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
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 anymore.
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.