When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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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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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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