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" Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. "
John Steinbeck
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" I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. "
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" It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. "
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" Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. "
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" Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. "
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" The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. "
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" In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. "
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" I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. "
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" I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. "
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" Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. "
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" Time is the only critic without ambition. "
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" 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. "
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" The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. "
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" Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. "
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" I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? "
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Why
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" Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. "
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" A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. "
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You
" 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 so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. "
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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. "
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" I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. "
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Look
Nuts
" Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. "
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Universe
" It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. "
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" So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. "
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" We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. "
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" Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. "
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" These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. "
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