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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

John Steinbeck

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
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
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Company Greatness
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World

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