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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Ambition, Greatness, Human, Nature, Expectation

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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."

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"Time is the only critic without ambition."

"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."

"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."

"It ain't kin we? It's will we?"

"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"

"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."

"You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."

"And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away."

"Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone."

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