The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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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 you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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