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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

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

Hate Leaving Life
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
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
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECK

Corruption Fear Loss Power
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECK

Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECK

Journey Space Time
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Last Listening Myself Rule Story
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Lonely People World
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself

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