Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKNearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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