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    Words of Wisdom: John Steinbeck
    Words of Wisdom: John Steinbeck
    Words of Wisdom: John Steinbeck
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    Words of Wisdom: John Steinbeck

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    How aesthetically realistic and imaginative a writer can be is obvious in the works of John Steinbeck, one of the most famous American writers. His keen social perception and sympathetic humor distinguish him from several other contemporary writers.

    Owing to his creative power he could very beautifully play with the words to create some of the most beautiful sentences in English language. Having witnessed the world changing drastically, he managed to illustrate almost all aspects of human life that he witnessed in his lifetime.

    Hundreds of his statements and sentences have become very popular quotations today. The present collection of such thoughts will delight, amuse, and enlighten the prospective readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateMar 21, 2014
    ISBN9781310940729
    Words of Wisdom: John Steinbeck
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      Introduction

      John Steinbeck is considered as one of the most famous American writers. He is popularly known for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.

      His imaginative and creative mind often produced such beautiful lines that they remained in the minds of readers for very long time. He lived through the time while the world was going through very rapid changes. In his writings he illustrated almost all aspects of life.

      Some of his lines have become very famous and popular quotes today. In this book we have included hundreds of his famous lines which will not only amuse and entertain, but also educate and impress the readers.

      Section One

      Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

      There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

      I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

      I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

      All great and precious things are lonely.

      And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

      It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

      Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

      All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

      But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

      And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

      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.

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

      What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

      And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

      I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

      I guess there are never enough books.

      When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

      "I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their

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