“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
~ John Steinbeck more
“A journey is a person in itself;
no two are alike.
And all plans, safeguards, policing,
and coercion are fruitless.
We find that after years of struggle
that we do not take a trip;
a trip takes us.”
~ John Steinbeck
“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.”
~ John Steinbeck
“I wonder how many people
I’ve looked at all my life
and never seen.”
~ John Steinbeck,
The Winter of Our Discontent
Thought for the Day
It has always seemed strange to me…
the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity,
openness, honesty, understanding and feeling,
are the concomitants of failure in our system.
and those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness,
meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
And while men admire the quality of the first
they love the produce of the second.
~ John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
Thought for the Day
“Power does not corrupt.
Fear corrupts…
perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
~ John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
Thought for the Day
“I am impelled, not to squeak
like a grateful and apologetic mouse,
but to roar like a lion
out of pride in my profession.”
~ John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
Thought for the Day
“The discipline of the written word
punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
~ John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
Thought for the Day
“When a man comes to die,
no matter what his talents and influences and genius,
if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him
and his dying a cold horror.”
Thought for the Day
“If it troubles us it must be that
we find the trouble in ourselves.”
~ John Steinbeck
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1. Our capacity for self delusion is boundless
2. You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory
3. It’s not the lie that bothers me. It’s the insult to my intelligence that I find offensive