If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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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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 man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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