You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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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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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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