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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
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
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Change Deep People Philosophy
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK

Illusion Religion Socialism
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
JOHN STEINBECK

Last Listening Myself Rule Story
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity

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