Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKI am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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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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