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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

John Steinbeck

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men 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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK

Illusion Religion Socialism
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
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
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

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

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