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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

John Steinbeck

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECK

Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
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
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Lonely People World
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alone Greatness Lonely
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECK

Journey Space Time
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading
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 believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women

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