Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECKYou’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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