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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

John Steinbeck

A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
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
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Feeling Yourself
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
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
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading
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
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK

Illusion Religion Socialism
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Kind Word Writing
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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