All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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 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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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