To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECKIn utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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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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