In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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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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A man without words is a man without thought.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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