Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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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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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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