Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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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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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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