In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly through immitation do we develop toward originality.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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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.
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