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.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Your 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.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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