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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

John Steinbeck

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Kind Word Writing
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.
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Death Sad Story Writing
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
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
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth

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