It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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A man without words is a man without thought.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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