The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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And 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.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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