What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECKI know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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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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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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