And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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