If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECKTeaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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