Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
JOHN STEINBECKYou can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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 be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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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 is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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