I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
JOHN STEINBECKHow 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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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 be alive at all is to have scars.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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