It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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