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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

John Steinbeck

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Kind Word Writing
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
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
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Love Myself
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Life Myself People See
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECK

Giving Sick Simple
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
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
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
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
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feeling Yourself

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