It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.

John Steinbeck

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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shini... by John Steinbeck

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

faults horror shining

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. by John Steinbeck

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

loneliness soul literature

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

beautiful teacher art

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

hate knowing men

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

crafts stories writing

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

good-morning adversity life

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is mor... by John Steinbeck

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

wrath land men

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

wrath strength sound

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

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The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you of... by John Steinbeck

The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

wrath cutting forever

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer. by John Steinbeck

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

taste beer firsts

When a man comes to die, by John Steinbeck

When a man comes to die,

genius dying men

Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.

cutting writing mean

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental. by John Steinbeck

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

finals weapons brain

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

nature fishing men

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been... by John Steinbeck

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

dark loss grieving

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

one-tree-hill-love movement sound

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who he... by John Steinbeck

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

helping-others men world

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

mind heart men