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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

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

Help World Yourself
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Love Myself
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

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
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECK

Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Growth People Soul
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Life Myself People See

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.

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