Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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