All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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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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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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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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