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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

John Steinbeck

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
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
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
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Empathy Feeling People Understand
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

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

Conversion Men World
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECK

Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Difficult Experience Life Problem

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