In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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 is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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