The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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Men 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.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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