Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECKBooks are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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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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