A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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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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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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