It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECKOut of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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 answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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