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Quotes by John Steinbeck :

A great teacher
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 | education
Committe of sleep
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 | wisdom
Even if it is dreadful
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
John Steinbeck | truth
Failure
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck | war and peace
Indestructible
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
John Steinbeck | men and women
It continues
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck | time
It takes us
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck | travel
It's so much darker
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
John Steinbeck | loss
Like rabbits
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck | creativity
Passport to hell
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
John Steinbeck | imagination
Power does not corrupt
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck | fear
Remember
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 to the world.
John Steinbeck | death
Scared
John Steinbeck | fear
The only critic
Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck | time
To be alive
To be alive at all is to have scars.
John Steinbeck | life
When we meet
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
John Steinbeck | change

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