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

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
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECK

Person Responsibility Space
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
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
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
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Forget Imagination Revenge Way
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
JOHN STEINBECK

Confused Government People Tolerance
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Love Myself
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECK

Corruption Fear Loss Power
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Company Greatness
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECK

Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter
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
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
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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