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Quotes By John Steinbeck

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

John Steinbeck

Persistence, Writing

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The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

John Steinbeck

Honesty, Truth

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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.

John Steinbeck

Thinking

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This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

John Steinbeck

Purpose, Skill

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Arches National Park

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

John Steinbeck

Responsibility

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Hawaii, Maui

Time is the only critic without ambition.

John Steinbeck

Ambition, Time

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Lake Tahoe

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

Conflict, Thinking

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Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

Perfection

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Mexico, Playa Del Carmen

People don’t take trips, trips take people.

John Steinbeck

Travel

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Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck

Goals, Purpose, Vision, Work

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