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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

John Steinbeck

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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
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.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
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.
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Book Himself Talk
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.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
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
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
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 the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur

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