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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

John Steinbeck

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

Believe Life Myself People See
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
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
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
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.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Lonely People World
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Company Greatness
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Growth People Soul
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Kind Word Writing
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading

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