The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECKI am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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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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