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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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 find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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