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John Steinbeck Quotes

John Steinbeck quotes about change

American Author February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

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John Steinbeck quote: "Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you..."
Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. John Steinbeck
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... John Steinbeck
No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt."
Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money..."
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms John Steinbeck
He tried not to think what he knew--that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. John Steinbeck
Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability to change. Twenty-five key men destroyed could make the Soviet Union stagger, but we could lose our congress, our president, and our general staff and nothing much would have happened. We would go right on. In fact we might be better for it. John Steinbeck
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so..."
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history..."
Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course. John Steinbeck

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