Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECKYou’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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 the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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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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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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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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