Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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