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John Steinbeck - From the Advice category:
No one wants advice – only corroboration. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Difficulty category:
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Exploration category:
This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Fear category:
For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Freedom category:
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Greatness category:
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Individuality category:
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Insecurity category:
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Love category:
Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Words category:
I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck - From the Writing category:
I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me? (John Steinbeck)
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