An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECKWith all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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