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

John Steinbeck

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Life Myself People See
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 one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Children Men
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feet Horse Men Spiritual
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself

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