Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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