Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK
You 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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK