If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECKAll great and precious things are lonely.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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 believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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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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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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