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John Steinbeck

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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 can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
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
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
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
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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

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