Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKA 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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