Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECKPerhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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