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.
JOHN STEINBECKAh, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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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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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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