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The Winter of Our Discontent quotes

John Steinbeck

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“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a...” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“To be alive at all is to have scars.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“a story has as many versions as it has readers.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“intentions, good or bad, are not enough.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic, because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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