People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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