Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECKNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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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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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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