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"Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning."
"The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people."
"Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead."
"Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one."
"If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power of the storm, you sink!"
"Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!"
"Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive."
"He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung."
Explore more quotes by John Steinbeck
"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had."
"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land."
"And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men."
"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?"Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley."The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?"The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head."
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