I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECKIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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