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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck

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

See Truth Writing
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Hide Men
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
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECK

Journey Space Time
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Lonely People World
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECK

Darkness Grief Light Loss
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Human Literature Men
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War

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