Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKThe nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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 final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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