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“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.”

John Steinbeck · Courage

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John Steinbeck

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 on the world.

Death

John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Fear

John Steinbeck

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Work

John Steinbeck

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

Time