When the time for recognition of service to the nation in wartime comes to be considered, Bob Hope should be high on the list. This man drives himself and is driven. It is impossible to see how he can do so much, can cover so much ground, can work so hard, and can be so effective. He works month after month at a pace that would kill most people.
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JOHN STEINBECK You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see wh... JOHN STEINBECK And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed. JOHN STEINBECK Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good ... JOHN STEINBECK [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches... JOHN STEINBECK Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the dis... JOHN STEINBECK Anything that just costs money is cheap. JOHN STEINBECK Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l... JOHN STEINBECK I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pr... JOHN STEINBECK I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convin... JOHN STEINBECK Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. JOHN STEINBECK A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. JOHN STEINBECK Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reac... JOHN STEINBECK A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swa... JOHN STEINBECK At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side win... JOHN STEINBECK I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George. JOHN STEINBECK Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around... JOHN STEINBECK A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no differe... JOHN STEINBECK The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horri... JOHN STEINBECK Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventual... JOHN STEINBECK It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the com... JOHN STEINBECK We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient met... JOHN STEINBECK An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacce... JOHN STEINBECK And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. JOHN STEINBECK It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, bu... JOHN STEINBECK The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must ... JOHN STEINBECK Time is the only critic without ambition. JOHN STEINBECK It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should reme... JOHN STEINBECK In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the ... JOHN STEINBECK No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent. JOHN STEINBECK Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. JOHN STEINBECK No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like hi... JOHN STEINBECK What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. JOHN STEINBECK