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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

John Steinbeck

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
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Lonely People World
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
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
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
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
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
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
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

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