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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

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
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
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Change Deep People Philosophy
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feet Horse Men Spiritual
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK

Illusion Religion Socialism
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECK

Person Responsibility Space
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War

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