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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

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
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Hide Men
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Love Myself
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Journey Space Time

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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