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.
JOHN STEINBECKWrite freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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