Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECKMen do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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