I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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