I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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