I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
JOHN STEINBECKThe final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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 final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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