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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.

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
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Himself Talk
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
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
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
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
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
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECK

Journey Space Time
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
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
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Human Literature Men
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECK

Darkness Grief Light Loss
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
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
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECK

Appearance Poor Roots

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.

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