I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECKIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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