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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
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Himself Talk
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
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
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
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
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
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
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
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

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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