I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECKDon’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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