Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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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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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I 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.
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