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

John Steinbeck

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

Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Fools Literature Man
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECK

Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
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
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
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECK

Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Listening People Story

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