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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.

John Steinbeck

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
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Himself Talk
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Lonely People World
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECK

Person Responsibility Space
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Lose Love Right
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECK

Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy

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