I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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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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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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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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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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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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