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

John Steinbeck

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Life Myself People See
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feeling Yourself
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
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
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
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
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.
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Death Sad Story Writing
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
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading
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
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand

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

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