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.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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