All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly through immitation do we develop toward originality.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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