I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECKWrite freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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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 the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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