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.
JOHN STEINBECKAll great and precious things are lonely.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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