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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

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
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Love Myself
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Ignorance Men Stupidity
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alone Greatness Lonely
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War

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