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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

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

Kind Love Understand
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Lose Love Right
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
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
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECK

Corruption Fear Loss Power
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
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
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
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

Difficult Experience Life Problem
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See

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