Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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