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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

John Steinbeck

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

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