Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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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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