You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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