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A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.

John Steinbeck
Reading, Home, Men
John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

John Steinbeck
Book, Home, Mean

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

John Steinbeck
Memories, Home, Good Memories
John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.163, Penguin

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

John Steinbeck
New York, Home, Good Enough

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

John Steinbeck
Travel, Taken, Home

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

John Steinbeck
Children, Home, Men
John Steinbeck (1995). “To a God Unknown”, p.70, Penguin

Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.

John Steinbeck
Home, Independent, Other Worlds
John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.499, Penguin

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