It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECKWith all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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