Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKA writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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