There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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