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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.

John Steinbeck

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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
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
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
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 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
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Company Greatness
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

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