I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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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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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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