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

John Steinbeck

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
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
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Change Deep People Philosophy

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