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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

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

Feeling Yourself
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
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
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
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.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
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
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.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem

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.

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