I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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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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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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