What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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