No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECKAll great and precious things are lonely.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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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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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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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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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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