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John Steinbeck

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
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
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Death Sad Story Writing
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
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
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
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
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

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