Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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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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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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