If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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