Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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