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True Quotes by John Steinbeck
- The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even…
- It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago…
- But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the…
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and…
- Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her…
- [He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and…
- No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
- Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent…
- Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
- Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not,…
- I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical
- Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood