You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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Men 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.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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