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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

John Steinbeck

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

Literature Lonely Soul
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight God Philosophy Prayer
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Human Literature Men
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Lose Love Right
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
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

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