John Steinbeck

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

John Steinbeck

best

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

business

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.

John Steinbeck

change

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

John Steinbeck

courage

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

death

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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experience

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

failure

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

fear

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.

John Steinbeck

great

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

John Steinbeck

intelligence

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