It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECKI 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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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 never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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