When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECKAh, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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