Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
JOHN STEINBECKAn answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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.
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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