I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECKMy imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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