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

John Steinbeck

There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECK

Person Responsibility Space
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Lonely People World
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Children Men
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Advice Deep Yourself
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Circus Equality Women
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECK

Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel

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