There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECKMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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