You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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