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.
JOHN STEINBECKYour 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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