Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECKThe final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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