“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck
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“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked…. In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.”
John Steinbeck
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“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
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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.”
John Steinbeck
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“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
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“How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?”
John Steinbeck
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“Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.”
John Steinbeck
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“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.”
John Steinbeck
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“Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.”
John Steinbeck
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“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
John Steinbeck
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“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
John Steinbeck
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“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck
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“Time is the only critic without ambition.”
John Steinbeck
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“Texas is not a state — it’s a state of mind.”
John Steinbeck
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“No one wants advice, only corroboration.”
John Steinbeck
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