Maxioms by John Steinbeck
No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of read more
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any read more
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to
handle them, and pretty soon you have a read more
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to
handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
