Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKA man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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