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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

John Steinbeck

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

Family Parents
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
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
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
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECK

Person Responsibility Space
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
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

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

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