Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECKTo finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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 wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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