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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest,

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck
Love, Wisdom, Appreciation
John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck
Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

John Steinbeck
Love, Believe, I Believe

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

John Steinbeck
Love, Mother, Hate
John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.116, Penguin

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

John Steinbeck
Love, Sky, House
"Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 2, 1962.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

John Steinbeck
Love, Men, Hatred

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