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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By John Ernst Steinbeck |
| Quote #1: | "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say." |
| Quote #2: | "One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive." |
| Quote #3: | "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power." |
| Quote #4: | "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." |
| Quote #5: | "Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." |
| Quote #6: | "Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do." |
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