Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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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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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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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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