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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

John Steinbeck

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
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
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
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 understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
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
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
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
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking

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