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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECK

Giving Sick Simple
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
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
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECK

Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Hide Men
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Forget Imagination Revenge Way
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Lonely People World
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

See Truth Writing
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
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

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