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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.

John Steinbeck

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Love Myself
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Listening People Story
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

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

Feeling Yourself
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 STEINBECK

Help Reading Reality Writing
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

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