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

John Steinbeck

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
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Children Men
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
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
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight God Philosophy Prayer
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
JOHN STEINBECK

Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
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
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECK

Experience Government Hate Nation
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK

Illusion Religion Socialism
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Difficult Experience Life Problem
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself

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