If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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To 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.
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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