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

John Steinbeck

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

Book Himself Talk
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECK

Appearance Poor Roots
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Ignorance Men Stupidity
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
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

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

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