All John Steinbeck Quotes
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
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck
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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
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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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
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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.
John Steinbeck
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck
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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
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
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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
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 in
Marriage
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