I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECKI am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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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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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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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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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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