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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

John Steinbeck

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Giving Sick Simple
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Lose Love Right
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feeling Yourself
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECK

Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing

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