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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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People don't want advice...only corroboration.
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A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
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You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
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A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
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The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.
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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
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For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.
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Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.
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Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.
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