Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECKMan is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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 you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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