And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
JOHN STEINBECKI believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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