If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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