If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECKYou know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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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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