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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

John Steinbeck

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

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Life Myself People See
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
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECK

Corruption Fear Loss Power
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECK

Development Transformation
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Last Listening Myself Rule Story
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Failure Men War

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