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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

John Steinbeck

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
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feet Horse Men Spiritual
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Reading Reality Writing
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Growth People Soul
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
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
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
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Last Listening Myself Rule Story
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Empathy Feeling People Understand
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself

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