I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECKNearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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