If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECKMen 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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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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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 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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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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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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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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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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