Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECKAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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 is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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