This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECKPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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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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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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