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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

John Steinbeck

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECK

Giving Sick Simple
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Company Greatness
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECK

Darkness Grief Light Loss
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Difficult Experience Life Problem
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
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
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECK

Appearance Poor Roots
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECK

Explanation Literature Lonely Trying

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