All great and precious things are lonely. - John Steinbeck

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Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

John Steinbeck

All great and precious things are lonely.

Being Alone, Loneliness, Lonely, Precious, Things

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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

Faults, Horror, Horrors, Shining

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

Color, Eye, Know, Like, Redwoods, Silence

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

People, Stories, Courses, Listen, Story

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

Heart, Men, Mind, Like, Device

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

Clown, Clowns, Littles, Seals, Trained, Writers

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I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it - to a small extent, mainly because I say things that most French writers would probably hesitate to say for fear of offending someone or upsetting public sensibilities. I don't think that answers the question, but I'm not much good at figuring readers out or I would probably be writing bestsellers.

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Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

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Write. Write until it stops hurting.

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There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

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We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.

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