What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECKIn poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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