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

John Steinbeck

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
All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alone Greatness Lonely
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
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing

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