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

John Steinbeck

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
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.
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Book Himself Talk
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
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.
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Change Hide Men
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk

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

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