If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECKDon’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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