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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

John Steinbeck

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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Himself Talk
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
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
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
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
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Difficult Experience Life Problem

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