Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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