Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECKNo one wants advice – only corroboration.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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