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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

John Steinbeck

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
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
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Book Himself Talk
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
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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Help Reading Reality Writing

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