Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECKIdeas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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 you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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 shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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