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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

John Steinbeck

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

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

Ignorance Men Stupidity
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
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
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
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
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Hide Men
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECK

Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Life Myself People See
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Forget Imagination Revenge Way
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight God Philosophy Prayer
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See

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