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“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: good-hearted

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“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck

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“Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary-do you hear? Who are you in there?”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: routine

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“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: breakfast-of-champions, girls, kurt-vonnegut, machines, manipulation, thinking, women

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