When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECKAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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