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The quotations of

John Steinbeck

American writer

1902–1968

11 quotes, most often on Ideas and Emotion.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck: A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini
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Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.
East of Eden (1952), Part 2, Ch. 13. i
- Ideas
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.
East of Eden (1952), Part 2, Ch. 13. i
- Ideas

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