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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

John Steinbeck

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
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

Death Failure Love Men Talent
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECK

Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
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
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation

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