Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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