And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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