It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly mediocrity escapes criticism.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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 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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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