Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECKIdeas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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