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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

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Life Myself People See
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Human Literature Men
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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See
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
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Feeling Yourself
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECK

Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
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
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECK

Experience Government Hate Nation
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
JOHN STEINBECK

Circus Equality Women

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

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