...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secur…

John Steinbeck
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...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them. ✨ The Short Novels of John Steinbeck.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ✨ John Steinbeck (2008). The Winter of Our Discontent, p.64, Penguin
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.163, Penguin
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job … ▶
Thou mayest rule over sin. ✨ John Steinbeck (2012). The Portable Steinbeck, p.728, Penguin

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them. ✨ The Short Novels of John Steinbeck.

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