Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECKMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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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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