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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

John Steinbeck

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
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
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
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
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECK

Appearance Poor Roots
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECK

Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word

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