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Quotes from Burning Bright — John Steinbeck

1902–1968 United States

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He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.

Burning Bright (1950)

"It is so easy a thing to give—only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive."

Burning Bright (1950)

His guard was up now and he wasn't listening; he was only angry because here was a world he could not enter and so he had to disbelieve in its existence. He fell back on the world he knew.

Burning Bright (1950)

"I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ever known and you throw on it the acid of your pride, your ugly twisted sense of importance."

Burning Bright (1950)

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