This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECKI find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
JOHN STEINBECK