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“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 when he knows it is not true.”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
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“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''”
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“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”
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“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”
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“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.”
Leo Rosten quotes (Polish born American comic Novelist, He is best known for his humorous works and character Hyman Kaplan. 1908-1997)
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)
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“I believe that love cannot be bought except with love”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
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“This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
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“There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
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“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
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