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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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
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
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

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