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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

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECK

Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
JOHN STEINBECK

Confused Government People Tolerance
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
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
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
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
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECK

Appearance Poor Roots
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Kind Word Writing

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

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