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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

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

Alive Scars
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
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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Change Kind Word Writing
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.
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Anger Children Men
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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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
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
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
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.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life

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