If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECK
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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.
JOHN STEINBECK