Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKNo one wants advice – only corroboration.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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