Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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