All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECKAll war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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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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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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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