And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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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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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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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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