I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECKBooks are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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 have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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