And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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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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