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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

John Steinbeck

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

Art Word Writing
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECK

Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
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
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
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
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.
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Change Hide Men
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
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

Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

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