Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECKI 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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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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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK