It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECKNo one wants advice – only corroboration.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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