"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."
-John Steinbeck
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"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.“
-John Steinbeck
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."
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"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."
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