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

John Steinbeck

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
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.
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Change Kind Word Writing
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
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
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
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
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying

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

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