My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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