No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECKThe great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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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 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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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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