You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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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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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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