And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECKTeaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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