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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

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
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
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
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
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation

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.

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