If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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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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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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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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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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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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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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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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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