When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECKYou know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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