Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECKThe final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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 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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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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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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