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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

John Steinbeck

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
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
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
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.
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Anger Children Men
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
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.
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Change Kind Word Writing
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

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