Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKThis I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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