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

John Steinbeck

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

Brain Weapons
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
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
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Literature Lonely Soul
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
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
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feeling Yourself
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Company Greatness
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

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