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

John Steinbeck

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Reading Reality Writing
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
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
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
JOHN STEINBECK

Circus Equality Women

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