A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.
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Aphorisms by John Steinbeck
Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich? ' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly. ' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is, and a woman too, I guess.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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Strength and success, they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.
The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody, to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
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