Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKA man without words is a man without thought.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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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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