I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECKYou’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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