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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

John Steinbeck

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
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Lose Love Right
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
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
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Love Myself
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself

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