No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECKThe free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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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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