In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECKA man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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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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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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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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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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