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

John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECK

Journey Space Time
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole 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
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
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
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECK

Giving Sick Simple

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