My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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 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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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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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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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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