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Lasts Quotes by John Steinbeck
- To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't…
- I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all…
- If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone…
- The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd…
- No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
- Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could…
- For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad,…
- The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
More Lasts Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. — Marcus Aurelius
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo