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

John Steinbeck

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Reading Reality Writing
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight God Philosophy Prayer
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing

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