Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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 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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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