A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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