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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck
People
Wrath
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck
Time
Space
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
John Steinbeck
Climate
Hell
Weather
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
John Steinbeck
Dedication
Literature
Man
Writer
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
Contempt
Dogs
Eyes
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck
War
Army
Despair
Football
Games
Glory
State
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Power
Fear
Loss
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck
Rain
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck
Time
Old
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
John Steinbeck
Advice
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck
Discipline
Dishonesty
Stupidity
Word