A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot

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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot

-- John Steinbeck

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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

-- John Steinbeck

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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. - speech at

-- John Steinbeck

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Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.

-- John Steinbeck

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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.

-- John Steinbeck

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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

-- John Steinbeck

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