This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK






