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

John Steinbeck

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
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth 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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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
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
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
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.
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Art Word Writing
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
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
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
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
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
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Company Greatness

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