Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECKYou’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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