I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECKThis I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK






