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Danh ngôn của John Steinbeck (Sứ mệnh: 9)

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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.
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
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.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.