No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECKGirls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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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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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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