Quotes from The Winter of Our Discontent — John Steinbeck
1902–1968 United States
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What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don't understand why.
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.
The incident seemed to prove to me that intentions, good or bad, are not enough.
Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn’t do anything about it.
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
If you want to keep a friend never test him.
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
A secret's a terribly lonesome thing.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
… we've got so many laws you can't breathe without breaking something.
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Steinbeck (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.