There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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