Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKMaybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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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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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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