Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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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 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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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