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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

John Steinbeck

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

Lonely People World
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
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
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Hide Men
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See

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