All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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